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Definition of non-belligerent in English: non-belligerentadjective nɒnbɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)nt Not aggressive or engaged in a war or conflict. Example sentencesExamples - But it also must have involved dialogue, collaboration, exchange, communication, recognition, and similar non-belligerent relations.
- The law of Nuremberg stated simply, that it is not legal to launch a war of aggression against a passive, non-belligerent country.
- Sweden survived the war as a non-belligerent state by following a flexible policy which responded to the political realities of the moment while retaining some freedom of manoeuvre for the future.
Synonyms peace-loving, unwarlike, non-violent, non-combative, non-aggressive, conflict-free, easy, easy-going, placid, gentle, meek, mild, inoffensive, good-natured, even-tempered, amiable, amicable, friendly, affable, genial, civil, cooperative, conciliatory, pacific, pacifist, anti-war, dovelike, dovish
noun nɒnbɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)nt A nation or person that is not engaged in a war or conflict. Example sentencesExamples - The threat of war thus disrupts financial markets and non-belligerents will try to move resources away, as will the belligerents' own nationals if they can.
- Hitler was on the point of invading the Soviet Union, the United States was still a non-belligerent and Britain was struggling to hold her own.
- While this policy enabled the country to remain a non-belligerent in World War I, it did not prevent a German occupation during much of World War II.
- The country remained a non-belligerent, but was enclosed within the area of German control.
- Troops readily change their allegiances, while the dividing line between non-belligerents and those in active service is tenuous and easily shifted.
- He notes that some 75 years later in Quirin ‘the Court concluded that Milligan… was a non-belligerent, not subject to the law of war.’
Derivatives noun So strong was the latter consideration that Mussolini preferred to talk of Italian ‘non-belligerence’ and not of neutrality, which was considered a sign of weakness. Example sentencesExamples - A shamefaced request to Berlin for the eighteen million tons of strategic raw materials ostensibly needed before Italy could fight excused Mussolini's decision to announce Italy's ‘non-belligerence’.
- The neutrality or ‘non-belligerence’ of all these states was swept away by Hitler's seemingly unstoppable tide of victories in 1940 and 1941.
- International observers have been more successful once peace or non-belligerence has been established.
- These traits of radical innocence and non-belligerence get him into plenty of trouble in the course of the story.
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