treaty

Definition

  • noun: an official agreement that is made between two or more countries or groups
  • noun: the action of 'treating' and especially of negotiating
  • synonyms: negotiation, treatise, tract

Examples

  • The country's warring factions have signed a 'peace treaty'. [=an agreement to stop fighting a war]

  • a nuclear test ban 'treaty'

  • the 'Treaty' of Paris

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I went on a raiding party last year to England, with Earl Gunnar Asgrimsson. We fought against the armies of King Ecbert, and wintered in Wessex. And made a treaty with Ecbert's ealdormen. And they told us that your father, King Ragnar, had sired a child there by Queen Kwenthrith of Mercia, Magnus. (..)
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