{
    "term": "treaty",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a formal agreement between two or more countries",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Treaty of Rome"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a peace treaty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **draw up/sign/ratify a treaty**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Under **the terms of the treaty**, La Rochelle was ceded to the English."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A multilateral nuclear test ban treaty was to be signed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All the members have voted to ratify the treaty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In September 1871 Japan entered into a commercial treaty with China."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Indonesia was not a party to this treaty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The treaty comes into force at midnight on December 31."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bilateral treaty between the US and Mexico"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an international treaty on climate change"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the criteria laid down in the treaty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Twenty-seven countries will sign a treaty to protect the waters of the Caribbean."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement", "War and conflict", "Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["global", "international", "regional"],
                "verb + treaty": ["draft", "draw up", "negotiate"],
                "treaty + verb": [
                    "come into force",
                    "provide for",
                    "guarantee something"
                ],
                "treaty + noun": ["party", "amendment", "changes"],
                "preposition": ["by treaty", "under a/​the treaty", "treaty between"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an article of a treaty",
                    "a clause of a treaty",
                    "the provisions of a treaty"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtriːti/",
                "audio": "tr/treaty/treaty__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtriːti/",
                "audio": "tr/treaty/treaty__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French traite, from Latin tractatus ‘treatise’, from tractare ‘to handle’, frequentative of trahere ‘draw’."
}