most-favored-nation

1. 1.

   of or relating to a commercial treaty where two nations agree to accord each other the same favorable terms that would be offered in treaties with any other nation

Questions about most-favored-nation

What does most-favored-nation mean?

most-favored-nation means "of or relating to a commercial treaty where two nations agree to accord each other the same favorable terms that would be offered in treaties with any other nation".

How many syllables are in most-favored-nation?

most-favored-nation has 7 syllables and divides as most--fa-vo-red--na-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is most-favored-nation a common word?

most-favored-nation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.