[
US
/kuˈweɪti/
]
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to the kingdom of Kuwait or its people
Kuwaiti ports -
of or relating to the capital of Kuwait or its residents
Kuwaiti streets are lined with luxury stores
NOUN
- a native or inhabitant of Kuwait
How To Use Kuwaiti In A Sentence
- Yet because most of the victims were Kurds, Shiites, marsh Arabs, Iranians and Kuwaitis, the question was why it should matter to the West—anymore than, say, the butcheries in the Congo matter. Tyranny and Indifference
- Under strict secrecy, they flew to the Persian Gulf to witness the reflagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers with U.S. flags.
- My immediate reaction was that there is something wrong because I knew that Kuwait-Iraq talks had broken down in Jedda yesterday and Iraq had deployed about 30,000 troops on Kuwaiti border. Was 1991 Gulf War a prelude to the 2003 Iraq debacle?
- Kuwaiti streets are lined with luxury stores
- Hoping to prevent the conflict from disrupting the flow of Middle East oil to Western consumers, Washington reflagged Kuwaiti tankers in early 1987 and then sent the U.S. Navy into the Persian Gulf to escort them through the war zone.
- Last year, it made a wager on the Kuwaiti dinar, which became the first currency in the region to abandon a strict peg to the dollar.
- In the late 1980s, the United States participated in Operation Earnest Will, reflagging Kuwaiti tankers under the Stars and Stripes and escorting them into the Gulf.
- After the meeting, Glaspie cabled Baker and urged him to "ease off on public criticism of Iraq" until Saddam had been given the chance to negotiate with the Kuwaitis at a Saudi-arranged conference in Jedda. Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II
- It is now stalled in what we call administrative area on the Kuwaiti border. CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003
- There are 1.10 million Kuwaitis, which is just 32 percent of the total population. Arab Times Kuwait English Daily