world organisation

Noun
  1. An international alliance involving many different countries (synset 108311617)
    is a type of: alignment, alinement, alliance, coalition - an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organization

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