appeasement

English

Etymology

From Middle English appesement, from Old French apaisement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɪiz.mənt/

Noun

appeasement (countable and uncountable, plural appeasements)

1. The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace.
   • 1941, Roosevelt, Franklin, White House Correspondents' Dinner:

     This decision is the end of any attempts at appeasement in our land; the end of urging us to get along with the dictators, the end of compromise with tyranny and the forces of oppression.

   • Senator, Saturday on television, you said that you had always thought that Quemoy and Matsu were unwise places to draw our defense line in the Far East. Would you comment further on that, and also address to this question: couldn't a pull-back from those islands be interpreted as appeasement?

   • 2021 May 5, Peter Beinart, “Biden’s Taiwan Policy Is Truly, Deeply Reckless”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     What’s crucial is that the Taiwanese people preserve their individual freedom and the planet does not endure a third world war. The best way for the United States to pursue those goals is by maintaining America’s military support for Taiwan while also maintaining the “one China” framework that for more than four decades has helped keep the peace in one of the most dangerous places on earth.
     Hawks will call this appeasement. So be it. Ask them how many American lives they’re willing to risk so the United States can have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

Related terms

• appease
• appeaser

Translations

the state of being appeased

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 姑息 (zh) (gūxī)

• Esperanto: mispacigo
• Finnish: liennytys (fi)
• Japanese: 宥和 (ja) (ゆうわ, yūwa)
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• Korean: 유화(宥和) (ko) (yuhwa)
• Persian: مماشات (fa) (momâšât)
• Portuguese: apaziguamento m
• Russian: умиротворе́ние (ru) n (umirotvorénije)
• Spanish: aplacamiento (es) m, apaciguamiento m
• Ukrainian: умиротво́рення n (umyrotvórennja)

policy of giving in to demands

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: تَسْوِيَة (ar) f (taswiya)
• Armenian: խաղաղեցում (hy) (xaġaġecʻum)
• Belarusian: улаго́джванне n (ulahódžvannje)
• Bulgarian: умиротворя́ване (bg) n (umirotvorjávane), умиротворе́ние (bg) n (umirotvorénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綏靖主義／绥靖主义 (zh) (suíjìng zhǔyì), 绥靖主义 (zh) (suíjìng zhǔyì), 綏靖政策／绥靖政策, 绥靖政策 (suíjìng zhèngcè)

• Czech: appeasement m
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• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: myönnytys, liennytys (fi)
• French: apaisement (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Beschwichtigungspolitik f, Appeasement n
• Hindi: तुष्टीकरण m (tuṣṭīkraṇ)
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• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 宥和政策 (ゆうわせいさく, yūwa seisaku)
• Korean: 유화정책(宥和政策) (ko) (yuhwajeongchaek)
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• Norwegian:

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• Persian: مماشات (fa) (momâšât)
• Polish: appeasement (pl) m
• Romanian: politică de conciliere f
• Russian: умиротворе́ние (ru) n (umirotvorénije)
• Slovak: appeasement m
• Swedish: eftergiftspolitik c
• Turkish: yatıştırma (tr)
• Ukrainian: умиротво́рення n (umyrotvórennja)
• Vietnamese: chính sách nhân nhượng