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🚫 Not by treaty 🤝 An informal agreement
nontreaty

nontreaty

7.2
Not covered by a formal treaty between governments
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈtriːti/
translation icon : no tratado
  • Conflicts often arose between treaty and nontreaty groups, leading to tensions in the region.
  • nontreaty Indians

Examples

  • Many nontreaty Indians were not recognized by the government, complicating their efforts to secure rights.

  • To solve the growing hostilities, General Oliver O. Howard was commissioned to remove the nontreaty Nez Perce.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The nontreaty residents faced numerous obstacles when seeking support for their land claims.

Antonyms

treaty
  • Formal
509 4.1

A written agreement between countries about peace, trade or other relations

How Formal

binding
  • Formal
4.6
treaty
  • Formal
509 4.1
customary
70 3.5
nontreaty
7.2

Surface Forms

nontreaty positive

Morphology

nontreaty = treaty (transparent) = non + treaty

Formed by the productive negative prefix 'non-' plus the noun 'treaty', so the meaning is a straightforward negation.

Etymology

Nontreaty is made from non- 'not' and treaty 'formal agreement'. It tells you something (like land or rights) that is not set or governed by a formal treaty.