| 单词 | peace dividend |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeace dividend peace dividend n. originally and chiefly U.S. a financial benefit from reduced defence spending; a sum of public money which may become available for other purposes when spending on defence is reduced. ΚΠ 1968 Fortune June 86/1 In Washington the magic phrase is ‘the Peace Dividend’... The fact is that peace dividends will neither materialize so quickly nor amount to so much as many people think. 1975 Forbes 15 Oct. 31 Remember the Vietnam ‘peace dividend’? There was no dividend. Even before the war ended, new government spending gobbled it up. 1995 Economist 14 Jan. 46/1 When the Soviet Union began to collapse in 1990, many people predicted a huge and long-awaited ‘peace dividend’. < as lemmas |
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