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• cease-fire, cease fire

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From cease +‎ fire.

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ceasefire (plural ceasefires)

1. In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).

   The rebels agreed to a ceasefire while the peace talks were underway.

   • 2025 February 21, Scott Peterson, “Once-occupied Ukraine towns try to stay defiant amid fear over Russia gains”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎:

     But residents say steady Russian military pressure – combined now with an American president’s apparent parroting of Kremlin talking points about the war, and his push for a ceasefire that could include Ukrainian territorial losses – means Russia is also winning in a different way, by escalating Ukrainian anxiety.

   • 2025 May 10, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ukraine ceasefire call is aimed at forcing Putin to reveal his war goals to Trump”, in CNN‎:

     Putin’s answered by simply stating he did not believe Ukraine had honored the previous ceasefires Moscow had unilaterally called, and that Kyiv has said Moscow never respected either.

参考

• armistice
• truce

名詞

cease fire (plural cease fires)

1. Alternative spelling of ceasefire.
   • 1996, Tom Sine, Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in America's Culture Wars, page 280:

     I also encourage all of us to begin the cease fire in America's culture war by taking the initiative of inviting someone from the other camp to lunch.

   • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 73:

     in El Salvador, they declared a cease fire after ten years. Why didn't they think of that at the beginning?

   • 2004, R. Elizabeth Migliore, Evening Flower‎:

     On August 4 there was a cease fire in Java, the battle had lasted all of two weeks.

   • 2011, Jacob Bercovitch, Karl DeRouen Jr., Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific, page 275:

     To date around eighteen armed cease fires have been agreed between the army and armed groups of the following ethnicities...

参照

• “cease-fire”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.