NATO

[ney-toh, en-ey-tee-oh]

abbreviation

1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization: a political and military alliance established in 1949 in Washington, D.C., by 12 countries in Europe and North America for the purpose of collective defense against aggression, now comprising 32 member nations: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

NATO

/ ˈneɪtəʊ /

acronym

1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an international organization composed of the US, Canada, Britain, and a number of European countries: established by the North Atlantic Treaty (1949) for purposes of collective security. In 1994 it launched the Partnership for Peace initiative, in order to forge alliances with former Warsaw Pact countries; in 1997 a treaty of cooperation with Russia was signed and in 1999 Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic became full NATO members

Example Sentences

The drone incursions have prompted European officials to speed up the construction of a so-called drone wall on NATO’s eastern flank, using new technology such as acoustic detection and lasers.

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“In the end, we were further ahead, not just of the rest of the eastern flank, but ahead of most countries in European NATO.”

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Putin has promised to deploy the missile to Belarus, putting the hypersonic tactical weapon on NATO’s doorstep.

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When asked whether the former Conservative voters now with the Green Party would support his ambition for the UK to leave NATO, Mr Polanski stressed that the UK needs "a different approach to defence".

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The Polish Prime Minister said the drone incursion was a test of NATO, and that we haven’t been this close to conflict since the end of World War II.

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