treaty (ˈtriːtɪ) ![]() | |
| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | a. a formal agreement or contract between two or more states, such as an alliance or trade arrangement |
| b. the document in which such a contract is written | |
| 2. | any international agreement |
| 3. | any pact or agreement |
| 4. | an agreement between two parties concerning the purchase of property at a price privately agreed between them |
| 5. | archaic negotiation towards an agreement |
| 6. | in Canada |
| a. any of the formal agreements between Indian bands and the federal government by which the Indians surrender their land rights in return for various forms of aid | |
| b. (as modifier): treaty Indians; treaty money | |
| 7. | an obsolete word for entreaty |
| [C14: from Old French traité, from Medieval Latin tractātus treaty, from Latin: discussion, from tractāre to manage; see | |
| 'treatyless | |
| —adj | |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |