truce

Converse of object

• violate: How likely are rank and file members to violate a truce negotiated by their leaders?
• declare: So what better way to disarm the enemy by declaring a one-sided truce.
• negotiate: In the end, the gang leaders themselves negotiated a truce.
• conclude: He landed at Acre but retired after concluding a truce.
• call: A curious Northern word used in children's game to call a truce.
• arrange: Some of our men met some of theirs half way, and the officers arranged a truce till midnight on Christmas Day.

Preposition: between

• side: The island has remained partitioned ever since and UN peacekeeping forces maintain a truce between the two sides.
• party: It also gathered to it other dissidents stifled by the electoral truce between the two main parties.

Adjective modifier

• uneasy: An uneasy truce in place, we all go back to work.
• fragile: The talks came to nothing because IRA demands were too high and because the accompanying fragile truce broke down in contentious circumstances.
• electoral: The massive Labor victory declared on 26 July 1945 effectively spelled ruin for all parties which had benefited from the electoral truce.
• temporary: All they have won in exchange is a temporary truce in the assault on existing members ' pension rights.
• political: In June 1918, the Labor Party Conference terminated the war-time political truce.
• unofficial: Even at the front under strict discipline officers could not prevent unofficial, totally illegal truces between men.

Modifies a noun

negotiation: In Ireland, Ormonde begins truce negotiations with the Confederates, having at least the tacit consent of the government in Dublin.

Noun used with modifier

• class: The Marshall Plan had mobilized the European liberals and terminated the experiment with national reconstruction based on a broad class truce.
• year: In 1396, Richard II signed a 28 year truce with France, an agreement which would bring him dividends.

Preposition: in

war: We can afford no truce in the war on Aids.

Preposition: with

Scot: Edward dates from Newcastle, 16th November this year, when he signed a short truce with the Scots.