NATO

n. international organization established in 1949 for cooperative defense against aggression

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); ; (also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, or the Western Alliance) is a military alliance, established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the organization established a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.
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.nato was an Internet top-level domain. The nato TLD was added in the late 1980s by the NIC for the use of NATO, who felt that none of the then existing TLDs adequately reflected their status as an international organization. Soon after this addition, however, the NIC created the .int TLD for the use of international organizations, and convinced NATO to use nato.int instead. However, the nato TLD, although no longer used, was not deleted until July 1996.
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Noun
1. an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
(synonym) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(hypernym) world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization
(member-meronym) Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria
(part-meronym) Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, SHAPE

n. NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, international organization established in 1949 for cooperative defense against aggression

adj. born; nee

v. be born, be due; spring up, rise, arise, derive, originate, start up, come, grow, sprout, come up