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INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does International Bank for Reconstruction and Development mean? 

INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT (noun)
  The noun INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT has 1 sense:

1. a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governmentsplay

  Familiarity information: INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT used as a noun is very rare.


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INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

IBRD; International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; World Bank

Hypernyms ("International Bank for Reconstruction and Development" is a kind of...):

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


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