new world order
Americannoun
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a profound change in the organization of social systems or global political power, such as the improved cooperation between formerly hostile countries after the end of the Cold War.
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New World Order,
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a hypothetical, secretly developing, global reorganization of social, political, and economic systems in the direction of totalitarianism, as posited by a conspiracy theory.
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the conspiracy theory that posits this reorganization.
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Etymology
Origin of new world order
First recorded in 1845–50
Example Sentences
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The Boks duly restored rugby's new world order after the break.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
But some software vendors could fare better than others in the new world order.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
A new world order might be so hard to imagine that investors just ignore it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Earlier in his three-day visit, he had said that the Canada-China partnership sets the two countries up for a "new world order".
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
The voyaging and discovering of the three preceding centuries had destroyed European isolation and laid the foundation for a new world order of society.
From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott
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