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Qatar

Definition: Qatar

Qatar

Noun

1. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil.

2. A peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Qatar

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
QADanishStaten QatarGeography
QADutchStaat QatarGeography
QAEnglishState of QatarGeography
QAFrenchÉtat du QatarGeography, Law
QAItalianStato del QatarGeography
QASpanishEstado de QatarGeography

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Qatar

Synonyms: Katar (n), Katar Peninsula (n), Qatar Peninsula (n), State of Katar (n), State of Qatar (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Qatar

English words defined with "Qatar": Bidacapital of QatarDohaEl BedaKatar, KatariQatari, Qatari monetary unit, Qatari riyalriyalState of Katar, State of Qatar. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Qatar": QA. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Qatar" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (Qatar).

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Commercial Usage: Qatar

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Rice in Qatar (reference)

  • A Strategic Profile of Qatar,1999 edition (reference)

  • Executive Report on Strategies in Qatar, 2000 edition (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Live Horses, Asses, Mules and Hinnies in Qatar (reference)

  • The 2001 Qatar Economic and Product Market Databook (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • D&B Country RiskLine Report: Qatar [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Oil and Politics in the Gulf : Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar (reference)

  • Qatar (reference)

  • Qatar Business Law Handbook [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • This Way Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Qatar

Computer Images:
Qatar

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Photo Album: Qatar

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

379th Air Expeditionary Wing, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Qatar

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The Kingdom accounts for about 65% of total imports to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) market, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. (references)

As the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, begin to integrate into a common customs group, the tariffs across GCC borders will most likely decrease or be removed for items made in any one of these countries. (references)

The SGH tender is a six-country annual request for laboratory supplies and diagnostic products, whereby foreign pre-qualified companies are invited to bid for the supply of various laboratory items to the Ministries of Health of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mauritania

Unlike in the previous year, the Government did not pressure Radio France International to discontinue its broadcasts or the Government of Qatar to discontinue its Al-Jazeera broadcast to the country following the transmission of several programs highly critical of the Government. (references)

Economic History

Qatar

Qatar is politically stable. (references)

Qatar

Personal income tax: Nonexistent in Qatar. (references)

Political Economy

Qatar

Qatar, an Arab state on the Persian Gulf, is a monarchy with no constitution or political parties. (references)

Qatar

A strong supporter of a just and durable peace and economic development in the Middle East, Qatar publicly opposes terrorism and extremism of any kind. (references)

Qatar

Some women have been appointed to leading Government positions at the Undersecretary and Professor levels in the Ministry of Education and the state-owned Qatar University. (references)

Trade

Qatar

There is no deposit insurance scheme in Qatar. (references)

Qatar

Qatar enforces shelf life standards for about 75 food products. (references)

Qatar

The development of Qatar's North Field dominates all projects in Qatar. (references)

Travel

Qatar

Qatar is no exception. (references)

Qatar

Qatar local time is GMT plus 3 hours. (references)

Qatar

Officially, Qatar uses the Gregorian calendar. (references)

Women

Qatar

Females constitute approximately two-thirds of the student body at Qatar University. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

Boys are trafficked to the Middle East (primarily Qatar and the United Arab Emirates) as camel jockeys. (references)

Pakistan

There are approximately 1,000 such children in Qatar, and there are reports of such children in Saudi Arabia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Qatar

"Qatar" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Qatar" is used about 112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%11230,646

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Qatar

Expressions using "Qatar": capital of qatar Qatar Peninsula state of qatar. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Qatar": Bahrain-qatar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Qatar

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

qatar

1,255

banking business education government health hosting hotel insurance qatar retail web

14

doha qatar

739

qatar telecom

12

qatar airway

219

bank commercial qatar

11

qatar airline

78

bank national qatar

11

qatar map

78

qatar weather

11

qatar hotel

77

foundation qatar

11

petroleum qatar

75

qatar ruler

10

al qatar wakrah

45

government qatar

10

ar qatar rayyan

33

qatar visa

10

qatar university

31

qatar information

9

in job qatar

29

gas qatar

9

embassy qatar

28

football qatar

9

job qatar

26

qatar tv

9

capital qatar

25

bush qatar

8

qatar picture

21

hsbc qatar

8

qatar air

18

army qatar

8

air force qatar

17

employment qatar

8

news qatar

17

qatar flag

8

al qatar udeid

15

academy qatar

8

qatar newspaper

15

qatar photo

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Qatar

Language Translations for "Qatar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

卡"". (various references)

   

Danish

  

Qatar (State of Qatar, The State of Qatar), QA (State of Qatar), staten Qatar (State of Qatar, The State of Qatar). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Katar (Katar). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Kataro (Katar). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Qatarin valtio (State of Qatar), Qatar (State of Qatar), QA (State of Qatar). (various references)

   

French

  

Qatar (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar, The State of Qatar), QAT (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar), QA (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar), L'Etat du Qatar (The State of Qatar), le Qatar (State of Qatar), l'État du Qatar (State of Qatar), État du Qatar (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar). (various references)

   

German

  

Katar (Katar, Qatar (qa)). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

QA (State of Qatar), Κράτος του Κατάρ (State of Qatar), Κατάρ (State of Qatar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Qatar (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar, The State of Qatar). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

카타르. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atarqay

   

Portuguese

  

Catar (attract, clam, collect, court, glean, look for, pick up). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

катар (catarrh). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Qatar (State of Qatar), QA (State of Qatar), Estado de Qatar (State of Qatar), Catarro (catarrh, cold). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Qatar (State of Qatar), QA (State of Qatar), Staten Qatar (State of Qatar). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การ์ต้า, ประเทศการ์ต้า. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

Катар. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Qatar

Misspellings

"Qatar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atar, Fatar, Patar, Qaddur, Qadr, Qalaat, Qalat, Qantara, Qashqai, Qawar, Qitat, Qtac, quatar, Quattara. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Qatar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-q-r-t"

-2 letters: art, qat, rat, tar.

-3 letters: aa, ar, at, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-q-r-t"
 

+2 letters: quadrat, quartan.

 

+3 letters: aquarist, paraquat, paraquet, quadrant, quadrate, quadrats, quartans, quatrain.

 

+4 letters: antiquark, antiquary, aquarists, paraquats, paraquets, quadrants, quadrated, quadrates, quadratic, quatrains.

 

+5 letters: antiquarks, aquatinter, earthquake, equatorial, marquisate, quadrantal, quadrantes, quadratics, quadrating, quadrature, quarantine, quarterage, quaternary, reacquaint.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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