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N.A.T.O., NATO, Nato|ˈneɪtəʊ|
[Acronym f. the initials of North Atlantic Treaty Organization, set up in 1949.]
A military alliance of the United States and Canada with certain European nations. So ˈNato-ish a., supporting N.A.T.O.; ˈNatoism, adherence to N.A.T.O.; ˈNatoist, a supporter of N.A.T.O.
1950Newsweek 14 Aug. 40/3 Nato is the newest synthetic word in the international gobbledygook and stands for the North Atlantic treaty organization. 1962H. O. Beecheno Introd. Business Stud. i. 5 Britain had also put her military forces under a unified command in NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). 1965Economist 28 Aug. 770/3 The Socialist People's party has accused Labour of being too capitalistic and too Nato-ish. 1965New Statesman 24 Dec. 992/2 De Gaulle will not budge on his slightly neutralist type of Natoism. 1966Ibid. 18 Mar. 366/2 The opposition..includes a lot of outright Natoists (Mollet and even Mitterrand also support Nato, with reservations). 1975Guardian 5 Dec. 3/1 Britain is interested in buying several of the aircraft provided that other European NATO countries also join in. |