UN

Examples

• All

• Whether the UN bid is a success, pursuing it has already borne fruit.

  Academic text (2011)

• The two women, one Ghanaian, one Brazilian, wore the blue berets of UN resource allocation officers.

  Fiction book (1996)

• And I think one of the top UN officials said it was from Russia.

• So that was kind of why the UN went out of the window.

• We can get that from businesses if we show them that a powerful UN is to their benefit.

  Fiction book (1998)

• One was that it was fully authorized through the UN Security Council.

• We have a UN negotiator coming in.

  Sabotage (1996)

• "What do you mean?" The UN has decided not to fight the invaders.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I know you've been working at the UN for only a short time.

  Fiction book (1993)

• We've seen strong action by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

  Human Rights Watch

Synonyms

U

United Nations

vsUN

796 2.3

A group of countries that works to keep peace and help people around the world

is the short abbreviated form used instead of the full name

U

Uno

vsUN

• Archaic

6 8.1

An old name for the United Nations, the group of countries that work together

is the modern short abbreviation rather than the historical formal form

Compounds

U

UN agency

1 3.4

An organization that works with the United Nations on a particular task, for example health or children

U

un-

• Specialized

1.0

Put before verbs, adjectives and nouns to show undoing

U

un-

• Specialized

1.0

Put before words to mean not or the opposite

V

vingt-et-un

9.9

A card game where players try to have cards that add up to 21 or less and beat the dealer

Surface Forms

Etymology