Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that preserves or promotes peace.
- noun A member of a usually armed force engaging in peacekeeping activities, often under international sanction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area.
- noun someone who keeps peace.
- noun U. S. History the pistol of a law officer in the old West.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
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police officer in a Canadian aboriginal community
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who keeps peace
- noun a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area
- noun the pistol of a law officer in the old West
Etymologies
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Examples
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I hated the word 'peacekeeper' when I got back from Bosnia because it implied some sort of bloodless offering with no real danger.. . .
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After returning from one of his forays into the countryside, he said to me, The switch between being a combat soldier and a peacekeeper is easy at this point.
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After returning from one of his forays into the countryside, he said to me, The switch between being a combat soldier and a peacekeeper is easy at this point.
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HMCS Annapolis was a durable destroyer escort in the Canadian navy at a time when Canada was known as a peacekeeper.
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"Personally, I never enjoyed being called a peacekeeper," he said.
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"Personally, I never enjoyed being called a peacekeeper," he said.
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A 'middle-of-the-road' 'peacekeeper' image that really is a supporter of liberal agendas pressed through a growing federal government.
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Children are always hungry, there's never enough food, often it's for one meal a day, illness and disease are common, life expectancy very low, and so-called Blue Helmet "peacekeeper" and gang violence plague communities like Port-au-Prince's Cite Soleil.
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Ever since, the country has been a killing field under US control with a paramilitary "peacekeeper" contingent as enforcers.
Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards' "Guardians of Power"
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Children are always hungry, there's never enough food, often it's for one meal a day, illness and disease are common, life expectancy very low, and so-called Blue Helmet "peacekeeper" and gang violence plague communities like Port-au-Prince's Cite Soleil.
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