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an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation

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See Organization of American States.

1. Organisation de l’Armée Secrète (French), an organization of French settlers who opposed Algerian independence in the early 1960s

2. Organization of American States

OAS (no periods) or O.A.S.,

Organization of American States (an organization of American republics, founded in 1948 to succeed the Pan American Union).

abbr. Organization of American States

OAS 7 [OAS] [ˌəʊ eɪ ˈes] [ˌoʊ] abbreviation (CanE)

↑old age security

see also ↑Organization of American States

obs. forms of ooze n.