Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation North American Free Trade Agreement
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- initialism North American Free Trade Agreement
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico; became effective in 1994 for ten years
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Examples
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Public Citizen, www. citizen.org/trade/nafta/lists the broken promises of NAFTA and why we will continue to feel its effects for decades to come.
Mary Ann West: Death Toll Increases to Over 5,000 and Counting 2009
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This is so ridiculous, we only have Nafta because of Bill and Hillary, she supported it (The Buffalo News reports that back in 1998, Clinton attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and thanked praised corporations for mounting "a very effective business effort in the U.S. on behalf of NAFTA."
Elizabeth Edwards: "I Just Have More Confidence" In Hillary On Health Care 2009
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* Of course, her involvement in NAFTA is one of the few concrete examples of her being active in policy proposals beyond health care, so, yeah, I guess she's in kind of a bind.
Obama Release on Clinton Schedules; Obama Conference Call - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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I would think NAFTA is also a free-trade zone but from what I read here, apparently, it isn't. johanson
Dell Mexico 2009
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From my interest in NAFTA since the agreement took effect, I thought the study did an effective job of tying in a wide range of facts and situations while remaining relatively non-partisan.
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NAFTA is a bad and unfunny joke and folks sit around down here arguing over who stole their money.
Page 2 2009
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NAFTA is a bad and unfunny joke and folks sit around down here arguing over who stole their money.
Page 2 2009
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I would think NAFTA is also a free-trade zone but from what I read here, apparently, it isn't. johanson
Dell Mexico 2009
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NAFTA is a bad and unfunny joke and folks sit around down here arguing over who stole their money.
Page 2 2009
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From my interest in NAFTA since the agreement took effect, I thought the study did an effective job of tying in a wide range of facts and situations while remaining relatively non-partisan.
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