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the EEC

noun
 
 
/ˌiː.iːˈsiː/

Definition

the European Economic Community: an organization formed in 1958 that developed into the European Community, which became the European Union in 1994.European politics and government
(Definition of the EEC noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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