Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective not directly at war.
- noun A country which is not involved in a war.
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- adjective Not
belligerent ,aggressive orwarlike - noun A peaceful person, or a nation that is not at
war
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- adjective not directly at war
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Examples
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That nonbelligerent visual message mirrored what bin Laden said: Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, or Bush, or al-Qaeda.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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In the midst of the Suez crisis, he negotiated the continued flow of Saudi oil to the nonbelligerent nations.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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That nonbelligerent visual message mirrored what bin Laden said: Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, or Bush, or al-Qaeda.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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In the midst of the Suez crisis, he negotiated the continued flow of Saudi oil to the nonbelligerent nations.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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That nonbelligerent visual message mirrored what bin Laden said: Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, or Bush, or al-Qaeda.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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That nonbelligerent visual message mirrored what bin Laden said: Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, or Bush, or al-Qaeda.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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How can the Bible be used to support tax breaks for the rich, lying at all levels of government, aggressive wars against nonbelligerent nations, torture, and all other horrors of our day?
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Luckily for the group, a younger, nonbelligerent man accepted Grogan's challenge.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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He was a nonbelligerent in the theory wars, and though you might think that you could guess where his sympathies lay, it was always a mistake to assume that you had taken the measure of Appel.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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She will be in a hole the citizens of Iowa and New Hampshire voted her into, which she will not be able to dig out of because she'll be completely on the defensive as her opponents throw believable nonbelligerent dirt into her presidential grave.
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