Meanings
- abbreviationinitialisminternational lawInitialism of World Trade Organization.
“The question is PNTR, which is absent. And then they had some other stuff on the WTO in there, which is kind of hollow if we don’t do PNTR,” Crapo said earlier in the day.
2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN1 more example
A senior White House official, who declined to speak on the record, called the summit a success in part because the US had been able to exclude language on multilateralism, and because “for the first time ever, the G20 recognized the WTO is currently falling short of meeting its objectives and that it’s in need of reform”.
2018 December 1, Julian Borger, “G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms”, in The Guardian, London, United Kingdom, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2019 - abbreviationhistoricalinitialisminternational lawInitialism of Warsaw Treaty Organization.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Cantonese 世貿 /世贸
- 世貿 /世贸 (sai³ mau⁶)World Trade Organization
Chinese Mandarin WTO, 世貿 /世贸
- WTOWorld Trade Organization
- 世貿 /世贸 (Shì-Mào)World Trade Organization
Finnish WTO
- WTOWorld Trade Organization
French OMC
- OMCWorld Trade Organization
Italian OMC
- OMCWorld Trade Organization
Polish WTO
- WTOWorld Trade Organization
Portuguese Organização Mundial do Comércio, OMC
- Organização Mundial do ComércioWorld Trade Organization
- OMCWorld Trade Organization
Russian ВТО
- ВТО (VTO)World Trade Organization
Spanish OMC
- OMCWorld Trade Organization
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Cite this entry
WTO. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WTO
“WTO.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WTO. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “WTO,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WTO.
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