INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does international organization mean? 

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

1. an international alliance involving many different countries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERNATIONAL 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 ("international 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 "international 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)

 Context examples 

An international organization of scientists involved in human genetics.

(Human Genome Organisation, NCI Thesaurus)

This committee is a part of an international organization that promotes the norms, values, standards, and ethics of the sciences of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

(Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, NCI Thesaurus)

An international organization with a mission to promote the wellbeing of women and to raise the standards of practice in obstetrics and gynecology.

(Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, NCI Thesaurus)

BioCarta aims to be the leader in the development and commercialization of new technology for functional proteomics by creating an international organization geared towards identifying, acquiring, and commercializing novel products.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)