hostilities

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Etymology 1

Noun

hostilities

  1. plural of hostility

Etymology 2

Noun

hostilities pl (plural only)

  1. Acts of war.
    • 2005, Ian Oliver, “The Road to Dayton Ohio”, in War & Peace in the Balkans: The Diplomacy of Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 91:
      The GFAP also called for the deployment of an international armed force, under NATO leadership, of sixty thousand troops to supervise the cessation of hostilities and to provide framework security to enable civilian peace implementation.
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