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United Nations
[ yoo-nahy-tid ney-shuhnz ]
noun
- the United Nations (used with a singular verb,) an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945, and since then by many more countries. : UN, U.N. Compare General Assembly, Security Council.
- (used with a plural verb) the nations that signed the joint declaration in Washington, D.C., January 2, 1942, pledging to employ full resources against the Axis powers, not to make a separate peace, etc.
United Nations
noun
- an international organization of independent states, with its headquarters in New York City, that was formed in 1945 to promote peace and international cooperation and security UN
- (in World War II) a coalition of 26 nations that signed a joint declaration in Jan 1942, pledging their full resources to defeating the Axis powers
United Nations
- An organization that includes virtually all countries in the world, with nearly 190 member nations. Its General Assembly, in which each member nation has one vote, guides policies and finances generally. Another important division of the United Nations is the Security Council , in which five powerful nations have a majority; the Security Council is charged with solving crises and keeping peace. The United Nations also includes an Economic and Social Council; a Secretariat, or administrative division; and the International Court of Justice , or World Court. It also is allied with several agencies that operate independently, such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , the World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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The United Nations was prompted to impose a ban on selling mainframe computers or laptops to North Korea.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that 3,419 others are known to have died at sea in 2014, so far.
The United Nations wants us to remember human rights 365 days a year, in fact.
At a meeting Tuesday, Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola David Nabarro zeroed in on this point.
He wanders through the halls of the United Nations, passing out pamphlets and extolling his cause.
There was a crisis in the United Nations, which had been reorganized once and might need to be shuffled again.
The United Nations, from a weak but hopeful beginning, had now stepped forth in its own right as an effective world government.
Had little Alse's mother lived he would never have volunteered for this third United Nations' war duel.
I terminated my employment with the United Nations in June 1963.
But for a number of years you were an interpreter at the United Nations?
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