cease fire
See also: ceasefire
English
Phrase
(deprecated template usage) cease fire
- (military) Stop engaging in hostile acts, particularly those involving firearms. A command that troops end the existing status of engaging in hostile action.
Noun
cease fire (plural cease fires)
- Alternative spelling of ceasefire
- 1996, Tom Sine, Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in America's Culture Wars, p. 280:
- I also encourage all of us to begin the cease fire in America's culture war by taking the initiative of inviting someone from the other camp to lunch.
- 2004, R. Elizabeth Migliore, Evening Flower:
- On August 4 there was a cease fire in Java, the battle had lasted all of two weeks.
- 2011, Jacob Bercovitch, Karl DeRouen Jr., Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific, p. 275:
- To date around eighteen armed cease fires have been agreed between the army and armed groups of the following ethnicities...
- 1996, Tom Sine, Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in America's Culture Wars, p. 280: