cease fire

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English

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Phrase

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cease fire

  1. (military) Stop engaging in hostile acts, particularly those involving firearms. A command that troops end the existing status of engaging in hostile action.

Noun

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cease fire (plural cease fires)

  1. Alternative spelling of cease-fire
    • 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[1], 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[2]:
      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...