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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Economic and Social Council mean? 

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (noun)
  The noun ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL has 1 sense:

1. a permanent council of the United Nations; responsible for economic and social conditionsplay

  Familiarity information: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A permanent council of the United Nations; responsible for economic and social conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Economic and Social Council; ECOSOC

Hypernyms ("Economic and Social Council" is a kind of...):

council (a body serving in an administrative capacity)

Holonyms ("Economic and Social Council" is a member of...):

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


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