new world order

American  

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

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

Example Sentences

That isn’t naivety or disloyalty to any American vision of a new world order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

An automation revolution may be coming, but some experts think humans will still play a vital role in that new world order.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 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

But add up the dozen or so other countries that form the supposed vanguard of this new world order: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

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