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ˈpeace-ˌkeeper
One who keeps or maintains peace; one who ‘keeps the peace’ or refrains from strife (? obs.); one who prevents or averts strife; a guardian of the peace. Also, an organization that keeps or maintains the peace; one regularly employed in the maintenance of peace between nations or communities; a soldier in a force so employed. So ˈpeace-keeping vbl. n. (freq. attrib.).
1579–80North Plutarch (1656) 56 Those which the Grecians call Irenophylaces, as who would say, peace-keepers. 1643[Angier] Lanc. Vall. Achor 5 Had not God..moved them to be the Peace-Keepers..they had been satisfied with blood. 1883Times 6 Sept., Germany, as our Berlin correspondent said yesterday, is the peacemaker and the peace⁓keeper of Europe. 1961Times 2 Oct. 13/3 Budgetary procedures..including the cost of peace-keeping operations. 1961Guardian 24 Oct. 8/3 The problems of a disarmed world, peace-keeping machinery, etc. 1963Times 22 Apr. 11/3 The development of the United Nations as a peacekeeping organization will be seriously hampered before the summer is out if its present financial difficulties are not solved. 1964Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 12/2 The sending of some international peacekeeping force has become a matter of extreme urgency. 1964Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Mar. 1 If an international truce force went to the island [sc. Cyprus], Turkey would forgo its right to intervene for three months... This is.. a rare declaration of faith in the United Nations as a peace-keeper. 1965Spectator 15 Jan. 76/2 Peace-keeping is the basic function of the United Nations. 1965Maclean's Mag. 1 Dec. 16 Lieutenant-General Burns..was the first of a new breed of international trouble-shooters who now try to halt the escalators of war by policing cease-fires—the Canadian peacekeepers. 1973Times 17 Sept. 16/8 Peacekeeping is..a purely temporary role; a permanently-active peacekeeper must in the end become an irritant. 1977R. Holland Self & Social Context ix. 274 The forces of capital and labour face each other unmediated by the normal peace-keeping functions of police intermediaries. 1978Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Oct. 10/6 Although Mr. Jamieson refused to commit Canadian forces to a peacekeeping force in the territory, he indicated he was moving in that direction. |