world affairs
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- noun
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asuntos mundiales
- The summit aimed to address pressing issues in world affairs and promote international cooperation.
- a role in world affairs
- influence on world affairs
- contemporary world affairs
He's a historian of all kinds of world affairs.
- He's a historian of all kinds of world affairs.
- The third panel has to do with evil in world affairs, from everyday evils to more extraordinary crimes.
- That is when Paul Wood, world affairs correspondent for the BBC, wrote and I quoted him here.
Examples
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Beijing's attitude on this may foretell where China will stand as a future leader in world affairs.
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The U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia had shattered the post-war bipartisan consensus on America's role in world affairs.
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The United States is much more dominant and engaged in world affairs than at the end of the previous century.
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Washington may behave as a responsible power and play a constructive, leading role in world affairs.
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Keeping in touch with national and world affairs establishes a social connection with the greater world at large.
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In that sense, leadership in world affairs has become a self-imposed destiny for America since the end of World War II.
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The United States cannot withdraw with impunity from involvement in world affairs.
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The United States should have taken a more active role in world affairs after World War I but instead retreated into isolationism.
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Pessimistic about the future, large numbers were worried about America's decline in world affairs.
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This is the story of the Suez Crisis, whose fallout shaped world affairs for decades to come.
Synonyms
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3.6
Matters and relations between countries about politics, trade, or diplomacy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning ‘political, economic, or social matters involving nations’ is directly and compositionally derived from 'world' (global) + 'affairs' (matters or issues). This noun–noun combination follows a straightforward semantic modification pattern that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
World affairs comes from joining world (all countries and people) and affairs (business or important matters), giving a clear picture of leaders and diplomats meeting to deal with the world's problems. So, world affairs means 'political, economic, or social events and relationships between countries'.