| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
transportation
transport transfer
transferral
conveyance | the act of moving something from one location to another |
soccer
association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| jihad jehad international jihad | a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels |
| association | the act of consorting with or joining with others, you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association |
transportation shipping
transport | the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials |
air transportation
air transport | transportation by air |
world affairs
international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
mutual aid
international logistic support | arrangements made between nations to assist each other |
conveyance
transport | something that serves as a means of transportation |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
| public transport | conveyance for passengers or mail or freight |
tape drive
tape transport
transport | a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read
write heads of a tape playback
recorder |
| transport ship | a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment |
troop carrier
troop transport | any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops |
concert pitch
philharmonic pitch
international pitch | the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances, usually assignsHz to the A above middle C |
cystic fibrosis transport regulator
CFTR | the gene that is mutated in cystic fibrosis |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
association
connection
connexion | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination, conditioning is a form of learning by association |
| free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
associationism
association theory | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity |
Morse
Morse code
international Morse code | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) |
International Wanted Notice
Red Notice | an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition, a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries, an Interpol Red Notice is the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today |
| association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species |
| International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
Japanese Red Army
JRA
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LTTE
Tamil Tigers
Tigers
World Tamil Association
World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Orange Order
Association of Orangemen | a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland |
Ulster Defence Association
UDA | the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs |
| association | a formal organization of people or groups of people, he joined the Modern Language Association |
Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
National Volunteers Association | an all-male organization begun in to foster nationalism in India's Hindus |
Lions Club
International Association of Lions clubs | club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare |
Rotary Club
Rotary International | a group of businessmen in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace |
| professional association | an association of practitioners of a given profession |
world organization
world organisation
international organization
international organisation
global organization | an international alliance involving many different countries |
International Court of Justice
World Court | a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations |
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNICEF | an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries |
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEA | the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
International Civil Aviation Organization
ICAO | the United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
International Finance Corporation
IFC | a United Nations agency that invests directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors, affiliated with the World Bank |
International Labor Organization
International Labour Organization
ILO | the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor |
International Maritime Organization
IMO | the United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities |
International Monetary Fund
IMF | a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
| international intelligence agency | an intelligence agency outside the United States |