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cease·-fire (sēsfīr)

noun

a temporary cessation of warfare by mutual agreement of the participants; truce

cease-fire Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • violate: Was a greater impetus needed in order to violate the cease-fire?
  • declare: Frankly, we all need to take a deep breath and declare a cease-fire.
  • negotiate: Charles negotiated a cease-fire in Ireland that freed English troops for action on the mainland.
  • enforce: I asked everyone to try their best to agree, declare, implement, monitor and enforce a cease-fire for a whole next year.
  • announce: Just as the project began, the IRA, and shortly afterward the Combined Loyalist Military Command, announced cease-fires.
  • monitor: The United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone ( UNOMSIL ) was retained to help monitor the cease-fire.

Preposition: in

  • order: We wish to have an unannounced cease-fire in order to hold dialog leading to peace.

Adjective modifier

  • unilateral: Number two: Declare a unilateral cease-fire in the hope that such action will create the atmosphere for negotiation.
  • immediate: Question: Why not simply demand an immediate cease-fire by both sides?
  • paramilitary: Despite this murder, the loyalist paramilitary cease-fire was still deemed to be in place.
  • unconditional: The war in Croatia lasted until January 1992, when an unconditional cease-fire established an uneasy peace between the Croatian government and ethnic Serbs.
  • comprehensive: He reiterated the call for cessation of hostilities or, better still, a comprehensive cease-fire.
  • first: January 2, 1992: The Sarajevo Accord establishes the first lasting cease-fire in the war in Croatia.

Modifies a noun

  • violation: The UN also uses the term to refer to forceful actions to prevent cease-fire violations or to reinstate a failed cease-fire.
  • agreement: Despite a cease-fire agreement signed in 1994, a formal peace treaty remains elusive.
  • resolution: This was the posture which the U.N. took from the time resolution 687, the cease-fire resolution, was passed in April 1991.
  • line: UN peacekeepers still patrol the cease-fire lines left behind during previous wars.
  • negotiation: The need to do so was no longer presented as subordinate to the two-party cease-fire negotiations.

Noun used with modifier

  • IRA: Smyth, Jim An analysis of the background to the IRA cease-fire in Northern Ireland.
  • loyalist: The loyalist cease-fire allowed people to feel safer in publicly expressing political feelings in such a campaign.

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