GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade mean? 

• GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (noun)
  The noun GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE has 1 sense:

1. a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas

  Familiarity information: GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

GATT; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Hypernyms ("General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" is a kind of...):

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