cease fire

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English

Phrase

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

Noun

cease fire (plural cease fires)

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, 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...

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