Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that preserves or promotes peace: the peacekeeper in the family.
- n. A member of a military force engaging in peacekeeping activities, often under international sanction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. someone who preserves the peace
- n. a member of a military force charged with peacekeeping duties in a troublespot
- n. a police officer in a Canadian aboriginal community
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area.
- n. someone who keeps peace.
- n. the pistol of a law officer in the old West.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone who keeps peace
- n. a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area
- n. the pistol of a law officer in the old West
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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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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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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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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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The IOC could introduce a new event: perhaps synchronized obeisance, or competitive propaganda (with Georgia and Russia facing off), or "peacekeeper" teams with points awarded for discouraging violence.
Monroe Price: Practicing Paper Tigerism: Threatening to Boycott Russia's 2014 Sochi Olympics
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In response to Darfour and the massive refugee crisis in Sudan and Chad, the EUro "peacekeeper" nations sent 3,000 troops to Chad, but without UAV or helicopter support.
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Canada sunk from "peacekeeper" to partners in illegal aggression as McQuaig explains in this section.
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