international : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists
  Japanese Red Army; JRA.
  
  • in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel

WordNet

• noun a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year
  balance of payments.
  
  • a favorable balance of payments exists when more payments are coming in than going out

WordNet

• noun the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform
  United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
  

WordNet

• noun affairs between nations
  world affairs.
  
  • you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television

WordNet

• noun a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)
  ampere.
  

WordNet

• noun club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare
  Lions Club.
  

WordNet

• noun the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy
  IAEA.
  

WordNet

• noun a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
  World Bank; IBRD.
  

WordNet

• noun a former international unit of luminous intensity; now replaced by the candela
  

WordNet

• noun the United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation
  ICAO.
  

WordNet

• (Naut.), a common system of signaling adopted by nearly all maritime nations, whereby communication may be had between vessels at sea.

Webster 1913

• . See under Copyright.

Webster 1913

• noun a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations
  World Court.
  

WordNet

• noun an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian
  date line; dateline.
  

WordNet

• noun an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank
  IDA.
  

WordNet

• noun a United Nations agency that invests directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors; affiliated with the World Bank
  IFC.
  

WordNet

• noun a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another
  

WordNet

• noun a chess player who has been awarded the highest title by an international chess organization
  

WordNet

• noun an intelligence agency outside the United States
  

WordNet

• noun a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in 1998 that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh
  

WordNet

• noun a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  jihad; jehad.
  

WordNet

• noun the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor
  ILO; International Labor Organization.
  

WordNet

• noun the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor
  ILO; International Labor Organization.
  

WordNet

• noun the body of laws governing relations between nations
  law of nations.
  

WordNet

• the rules regulating the mutual intercourse of nations. International law is mainly the product of the conditions from time to time of international intercourse, being drawn from diplomatic discussion, textbooks, proof of usage, and from recitals in treaties. It is called public when treating of the relations of sovereign powers, and private when of the relations of persons of different nationalities. International law is now, by the better opinion, part of the common law of the land. Cf. Conflict of laws, under Conflict.

Webster 1913

• noun an international administrative unit responsible for law enforcement
  

WordNet

• noun arrangements made between nations to assist each other
  mutual aid.
  

WordNet

• noun the United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities
  IMO.
  

WordNet

• noun a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
  mi; stat mi; statute mile; mile; land mile.
  

WordNet

• noun a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies
  IMF.
  

WordNet

• noun a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)
  Morse code; Morse.
  

WordNet

• noun a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
  naut mi; mi; mile; nautical mile; knot; air mile.
  

WordNet

• noun an international alliance involving many different countries
  world organization; world organisation; global organization; international organisation.
  

WordNet

• noun an international alliance involving many different countries
  world organization; world organisation; global organization; international organisation.
  

WordNet

• noun the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances; usually assigns 440 Hz to the A above middle C
  concert pitch; philharmonic pitch.
  

WordNet

• noun Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations
  ISN.
  

WordNet

• noun a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees
  Celsius scale; centigrade scale.
  

WordNet

• noun a religious sect founded in the United States in 1966; based on Vedic scriptures; groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna; devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy
  Hare Krishna; ISKCON.
  

WordNet

• noun a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
  Systeme International; SI unit; SI system; International System of Units; International System; SI.
  
  • Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites

WordNet

• noun a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
  Systeme International; SI unit; SI system; International System of Units; International System; SI.
  
  • Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites

WordNet

• noun terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country
  

WordNet

• noun an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition; a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries
  Red Notice.
  
  • an Interpol Red Notice is the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today

WordNet

• noun the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation
  high sea.
  

WordNet

• noun a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City
  Kennedy Interrnational; Kennedy.
  

WordNet

• noun a group of businessmen in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace
  Rotary Club.
  

WordNet

• noun a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
  Systeme International; SI unit; SI system; International System of Units; International System; SI.
  
  • Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites

WordNet

• noun a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
  Systeme International; SI unit; SI system; International System of Units; International System; SI.
  
  • Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites

WordNet

• noun an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries
  United Nations Children's Fund; UNICEF.
  

WordNet