WORLD ORGANIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does world organization mean? 

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

1. an international alliance involving many different countries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORLD ORGANIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An international alliance involving many different countries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

global organization; international organisation; international organization; world organisation; world organization

Hypernyms ("world organization" is a kind of...):

alignment; alinement; alliance; coalition (an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "world organization"):

Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)

OPCW; Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (international organization for chemical disarmament; administers the Chemical Weapons Convention)

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)

League of Nations (an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed)

community (a group of nations having common interests)

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

UN; United Nations (an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security)

commonwealth (a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another)

World Trade Organization; WTO (an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade)