Definition of "entente" [entente]

• An agreement between two or more governments or powers for cooperative action or policy: "the economic entente between the Soviet Union and western Europe” ( Robert W. Tucker). (noun)
• The parties to such an agreement. (noun)

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• "In fact, the dominant Anglo-American entente is opposed to colonialization and demands that the natives be paid for the extraction of their natural resources."
• "And that is why I proposed, at the Ottawa Conference, a revival of the Anglo-French "entente"."
• "To sum up, I advocate an immediate revival of the Anglo-French "entente", as an essential prelude to any wider European or Atlantic unity."