treaty
IPA: trˈiti
noun
- (countable, international law) A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.
- (archaic)
- (uncountable) Chiefly in in treaty: discussions or negotiations in order to reach an agreement.
- (countable) Chiefly in private treaty: an agreement or settlement reached following negotiations; a compact, a contract, a covenant.
- (obsolete)
- (uncountable) The manner or process of treating someone or something; treatment; also, the manner in which someone or something acts or behaves; behaviour.
- (uncountable) The addressing or consideration of a subject; discussion, treatment.
- (countable) A formal, systematic discourse on some subject; a treatise.
- (countable) An act of beseeeching or entreating; an entreaty, a plea, a request.
verb
- (transitive) To get into (a specific situation) through a treaty.
- (intransitive) To enter into a treaty.
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Examples of "treaty" in Sentences
- Signing a treaty is an international procedure, ratification is national.
- However, I cannot agree with the assessment that the treaty is anti-US, at all.
- This treaty is an intelligent, appropriate and moves humanity in the right direction.
- The document seemed long, and in fact, as I understood it, there were three documents -- one which they called the treaty, and two others they called "conventions."
- If a treaty is a more grave thing (since it can entangle the country with European machinations) it stands to reason that ratifying should be subject to a large supermajority.
- What this treaty is attempting to do is to reduce the stockpiles of nukes that are not in silos and heavily protected, you know the ones laying around that make them targets of terrorists to try and steal and use against both our nations.
- The SPLM joined the government of national unity after a 2005 peace deal ended two decades of civil war, but they walked out in October protesting what they described as treaty violations by the government and only rejoined in December amid fears that the civil war would re-ignite.
- "As to Mr Oswald's offer to make an acknowledgment of our independence the first article of our treaty, and your Excellency's remark, that it is sufficient, and that _we are not to expect the effect before the cause_, permit us to observe, that by the _cause_, we suppose, is intended the _treaty_, and by the _effect_, an acknowledgment of our independence.
- After flaring the opinion they had formerly cxprefled, that although the British government did not feel itfelf at liberty to relinquilh formally by treaty, its claim to fearch our mer - chant veflels foHJritilh feamen, its praflice would neverthelefs be eflentially, if not completely abandoned, they obferve — 11 That opinion has fince been confirmed by frequent confer - ences on the fubjed with the Britifh commiilioners, who have repeatedly affured as that in their judgment, we were made as feciire againft the exercife of their pretention by the policy their government Imd adopted, in regard to that very delicate and important queftion, as we could have been made by treaty*
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