treaty
Plural: treaties
Noun
- A formal agreement or pact between nations.
- a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
- A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.
- Chiefly in in treaty: discussions or negotiations in order to reach an agreement.
- Chiefly in private treaty: an agreement or settlement reached following negotiations; a compact, a contract, a covenant.
- The manner or process of treating someone or something; treatment; also, the manner in which someone or something acts or behaves; behaviour.
- The addressing or consideration of a subject; discussion, treatment.
- A formal, systematic discourse on some subject; a treatise.
- An act of beseeeching or entreating; an entreaty, a plea, a request.
Verb
- To get into (a specific situation) through a treaty.
- To enter into a treaty.
Examples
- A TREATY was almost formed over the board about who gets to use the triple letter score.
- to sign a peace treaty
- to write up a treaty touching climate change
Origin / Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English trete, trety (“bargaining, negotiation; discussion; conference, meeting; entreaty, persuasion; agreement, contract, covenant; arrangement, settlement; agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; written work on a particular subject, treatise; subdivision of a written work, section”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman treté, traité, treaté, and Old French traité, traitié [and other forms] (modern French traité (“agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; treatise”)); traité or traitié is:
* a noun use of the past participle of traiter (“to treat; to deal with, handle”), from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to drag, haul, tug; to handle, manage; to debate, discuss; to exercise, practise; to perform, transact”), from trahō (“to drag, pull”) + -tō (frequentative suffix); and
* also from Latin tractātum (“written work on a particular subject, treatise”), from Latin tractātus (“dragged, hauled, tugged; handled, managed; exercised, practised; performed, transacted”), the perfect passive participle of tractō (see above).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Scrabble Score: 9
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