meaning of Friars

[nona m.]

Business English Lesson, Advanced Level

ESL/EFL Test #269 "Business buzzwords: A 'Non-institution'", question 1

The ......... Club has remained strictly informal; it is the voluntary gathering of creditor countries willing to treat in a co-ordinated way the debt due to them by the developing countries, and can be described as a 'non-institution'.

(a) Benefactors
(b) Christmas
(c) Friars
(d) Paris

Business English Lesson, Advanced Level

ESL/EFL Test #269 "Business buzzwords: A 'Non-institution'", answer 1

The Paris Club has remained strictly informal; it is the voluntary gathering of creditor countries willing to treat in a co-ordinated way the debt due to them by the developing countries, and can be described as a 'non-institution'.

Correct answer: (d) Paris
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what is fliars?

nona m.

[Mister Micawber]

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The Friars Club is a New York City club, famous for its risqu? celebrity roasts. Founded in 1904, its motto is Prae Omnia Fraternatis, which is Latin for "Before all, brotherhood."
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