TREATY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treaty mean? 

• TREATY (noun)
  The noun TREATY has 1 sense:

1. a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

  Familiarity information: TREATY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREATY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written agreement between two states or sovereigns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

accord; pact; treaty

Hypernyms ("treaty" is a kind of...):

written agreement (a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "treaty"):

alliance (a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim)

commercial treaty (a treaty governing commerce between two or more nations)

pacification; peace; peace treaty (a treaty to cease hostilities)

convention ((diplomacy) an international agreement)

Instance hyponyms:

North Atlantic Treaty (the treaty signed in 1949 by 12 countries that established NATO)

SALT I (the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

SALT II (the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

 Context examples 

Did you ever mention to any one that it was your intention to give any one the treaty to be copied?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are sure that there is no binding treaty between them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He asked, “what business we had out of our own islands, unless upon the score of trade, or treaty, or to defend the coasts with our fleet?”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

However, the new research shows worldwide emissions of CCl4 average 39 kilotons per year, approximately 30 percent of peak emissions prior to the international treaty going into effect.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)

“It's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty of friendship by giving me one of her best hugs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All this they can read, with the date of this treaty or that battle, but I do not know where they are to read of ourselves, of the folk we were, and the lives we led, and how the world seemed to our eyes when they were young as theirs are now.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It succeeded, however; and though Sir Walter must ever look with an evil eye on anyone intending to inhabit that house, and think them infinitely too well off in being permitted to rent it on the highest terms, he was talked into allowing Mr Shepherd to proceed in the treaty, and authorising him to wait on Admiral Croft, who still remained at Taunton, and fix a day for the house being seen.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, for Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) is the agency which was given authority by diplomatic treaty the Convention of the Metre to maintain the International System of Units and to act in matters of world metrology, particularly concerning the demand for measurement standards of ever increasing accuracy, range and diversity, and the need to demonstrate equivalence between national measurement standards.

(International Bureau of Weights and Measures, NCI Thesaurus)

“You feared, as I understand, that very grave results might follow from the details of this treaty becoming known.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)