open city
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
open city (plural open cities)
- (military, international law) A city which has announced it has abandoned all defensive efforts, generally in the event of the imminent capture.
- 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 127:
- “You needn’t worry about bombs, by the way. Dresden is an open city. It is undefended, and contains no war industries or troop concentrations of any importance.”
Translations[edit]
city which has abandoned defensive efforts
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