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PLO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority
Synonyms:
Palestine Liberation Organization; PLO
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("PLO" is a kind of...):
political movement (a group of people working together to achieve a political goal)
Meronyms (members of "PLO"):
al-Asifa; al-Fatah; Fatah (a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups)
Domain region:
Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)
