WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does World Meteorological Organization mean? 

• WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (noun)
  The noun WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION has 1 sense:

1. the United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data

  Familiarity information: WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

WMO; World Meteorological Organization

Hypernyms ("World Meteorological Organization" is a kind of...):

UN agency; United Nations agency (an agency of the United Nations)

 Context examples 

The World Meteorological Organization reports 2017 is on track to be among the three hottest years on record, just behind the two preceding years.

(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)

Analyses from the United Kingdom Met Office and the World Meteorological Organization also ranked 2017 among the top three warmest years on record.

(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)