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)

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)

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)

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

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)

community (a group of nations having common interests)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)

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