OPEC

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpɛk/

OPEC

1. Acronym of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
   • 1980 July, Frank Herbert, “Dune Genesis”, in Omni‎, volume 2, number 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

     Yes there are analogs in Dune of today’s events—corruption and bribery in the highest places, whole police forces lost to organized crime, regulatory agencies taken over by the people they are supposed to regulate. The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

• CEOP, Cope, cope