单词 | appeasement |
释义 | appeasement/ (əˈpiːzmənt) / SEE SYNONYMS FOR appeasement ON THESAURUS.COM nounthe policy of acceding to the demands of a potentially hostile nation in the hope of maintaining peace the act of appeasing Words nearby appeasementappear, appearance, appearance money, appear as, appease, appeasement, appel, appellant, appellate, appellate division, appellation Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for appeasementappeasement A political policy of conceding to aggression by a warlike nation. notes for appeasementA classic example of appeasement is the Munich Pact of 1938, negotiated between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain, the prime minister of Britain, allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia to Germany. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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