1. Prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process.
2. Subjected to a special process or treatment.

A document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another; SYN. bill of exchange, order of payment.

ETYM Hand + book; cf. AS. handbôc, or German handbuch.
A concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location; SYN. enchiridion, vade mecum.

ETYM Old Eng. tretis, Old Fren. treitis, traitis, well made. Related to Treat.
A formal exposition.

ETYM Old Eng. tretee, French traité, Late Lat. tractatus; cf. Latin tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, tractate. Related to Treat, Tractate.
A written agreement between two states or sovereigns; SYN. pact, accord.
Written agreement between two or more states. Treaties take effect either immediately on signature or, more often, on ratification. Ratification involves a further exchange of documents and usually takes place after the internal governments have approved the terms of the treaty. Treaties are binding in international law, the rules being laid down in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969.

Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries; SYN. slave traffic.

Enforced prostitution.

Formerly, the kidnapping of South Pacific islanders (kanakas) to provide virtual slave labor in Australia, Fiji, and Samoa.
From 1847 to 1904 this practice was carried on extensively to provide workers for the sugar-cane plantations of Queensland. The Pacific Islanders Protection Act passed by the British Parliament 1872 brought the labor trade under control to some extent.