appeasement Definition
ap·pease·ment (-mənt)
noun
- an appeasing or being appeased
- the policy of giving in to the demands of a hostile or aggressive power in an attempt to keep the peace
appeasement Synonyms
appeasement
n.
Antonyms
appeasement Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- terrorist: The Agreement itself is little more than a covert attempt to buy peace by the appeasement of republican terrorists.
- terrorism: We pay tribute to the stand he has taken since and support his present analysis of the appeasement of terrorism.
- fascism: In 1945 they were turning their backs on the 1930s and mass unemployment, poverty and the appeasement of fascism.
- IRA: Terrorists the world over have observed the results of the UK and USA governments ' appeasement of the IRA.
- aggression: The scheme was widely denounced as appeasement of Italian aggression.
Converse of object
- oppose: As a Tory student activist he supported republican Spain and opposed appeasement of Hitler.
- make: He succeeded Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister in 1937 and made appeasement ' famous ' .
- do: Why did appeasement fail to prevent the outbreak of war in 1939?
- believe: Another theory is that Chamberlain believed that appeasement was worth trying but that war was inevitable.
Adjective modifier
- internal: No more internal appeasement, no more loveless marriage ' .
- similar: Similar appeasement is and a handful who may be i might render.
- British: By british appeasement of the usa over to broadcast wilshire and seventh.
- late: As a group we are disgusted with the latest appeasement to terrorists the destruction of the RIR.
Modifies a noun
- policy: The result of Chamberlain's appeasement policy was the signing of the Munich Agreement.
- process: But when the state began in 1948, there were greater strains on this appeasement process.
- humanity: He is the embodiment of the most dangerous appeasement humanity has known since the 1930s.
- strategy: For the application of this approach to the 1930s appeasement strategy see M. Cowling, The Impact of Hitler, 1975.
Preposition: in
1930s: The Bank may have been guilty of appeasement in the late 1930s.
Browse dictionary entries near appeasement
- ‹ appease
- ‹ appearance
- ‹ appear
- ‹ appealable order
- ‹ appealable decision
- ‹ appeal bond
- ‹ appeal (as of) (by) right
- ‹ appeal
- ‹ APPC
- ‹ appassionato

