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unequal treaties

unequal treaties is the plural of unequal treaty.

Meaning of unequal treaty

Noun

unequal treaty (plural unequal treaties)

  1. (historical) treaty forced upon weaker nations by imperialist powers
    • In China, where a subcolonial state had resulted from a series of unequal treaties imposed upon her, the Russian Communists found fertile soil for the reception of their ideas, and thus prepared the way for their subversive infiltration.1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5

Questions about unequal treaties

What is unequal treaties the plural of?
Unequal treaties is the plural of unequal treaty.

Words near unequal treaties in the dictionary

  1. unepoxied
  2. unequable
  3. unequableness
  4. unequably
  5. unequal
  6. unequal treaties
  7. unequal treaty
  8. unequalable
  9. unequaled
  10. unequality
  11. unequalization

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