WORLD BANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does World Bank mean? 

• WORLD BANK (noun)
  The noun WORLD BANK has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WORLD BANK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORLD BANK (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 ("World Bank" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

A separate World Bank study has said slashing pollution must be a priority, saying that solving this problem would lead to solutions to other crises, including global warming and malnutrition.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

Europe has enforced capping regulations and the World Bank has proposed a ‘user fee’ to be imposed on those buying antibiotics for farm animals.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)