new world order

American  

[noo wurld awr-der, nyoo] / ˈnu ˈwɜrld ˈɔr dər, ˈnju /

noun

1. 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.

2. New World Order,

   1. a hypothetical, secretly developing, global reorganization of social, political, and economic systems in the direction of totalitarianism, as posited by a conspiracy theory.

   2. the conspiracy theory that posits this reorganization.

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Etymology

Origin of new world order

First recorded in 1845–50

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Example Sentences

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new world order

The Boks duly restored rugby's new world order after the break.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

The timing of Apple’s price hikes may have been coincidental, but they illustrate the new world order in technology right now.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

“To rebuild after that very bad, dirty time, we needed to discuss things and arrive at solutions, and at a consensus over what this new world order should look like,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

And fourth, it’s hard to imagine a new world order, and it’s plausible that investors find it so hard to price in this prospect that they just ignore it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 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 Scott Nearing

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