Greer

American  

[greer] / grɪər /

noun

1. Germaine, born 1939, Australian feminist and writer.

2. a town in NW South Carolina.

3. a female given name.

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Greer British  

/ ˈɡrɪə /

noun

1. Germaine. born 1939, Australian writer, academic, and feminist. Her books include The Female Eunuch (1970), Sex and Destiny (1984), and The Whole Woman (1998)

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Example Sentences

"The United States is not interested in another temporary extension of the moratorium," US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Thursday.

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The status quo "has become economically unworkable and politically unacceptable", Greer said in a video statement as the global trade body's ministerial conference -- its supreme decision-making body -- kicked off in Cameroon's capital Yaounde.

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Greer said the "new order" would involve agreements between smaller groups of countries, rather than "wasting years and even decades to agree on a lowest-common denominator".

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Greer said he was looking forward to frank conversations on WTO reform, its future role, and what it "realistically can, and cannot, accomplish".

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If members cannot agree on this, "no-one can reasonably expect the WTO to deliver meaningful results in other sectors", Greer added.

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