treaty

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A formal written agreement between two or more countries.

   The two nations finally signed a peace treaty.

2. 2
   noun

   The process of discussing terms in order to reach an agreement.

   The land was sold by private treaty rather than at auction.

Common collocations

• peace treaty Noun + noun

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 de…

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