appeasement

/ əˈpiːzmənt /

noun

1. the policy of acceding to the demands of a potentially hostile nation in the hope of maintaining peace

2. the act of appeasing

appeasement

1. A political policy of conceding to aggression by a warlike nation.

A classic example of appeasement is the Munich Pact of 1938, negotiated between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain, the prime minister of Britain, allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia to Germany.

Example Sentences

More than 200 civil society organisations said on Thursday they were "concerned about a military drift in the country's governance, rather than a search for appeasement and an end to repression".

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The British learned this lesson with appeasement before World War II, and Israel relearned it at a horrifying cost on Oct.

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For one thing, her girl’s request to get a hamster and Linda’s weary appeasement just rings all too true.

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Rather filed an unsuccessful $70 million lawsuit against the network, and in the years that followed, he delivered a series of prescient warnings about the chilling effects of political appeasement.

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On 18 August, the Israeli prime minister wrote a letter to Albanese in which he accused him of pouring "fuel on this antisemitic fire" and described Australia's planned recognition of Palestine as "appeasement" towards Hamas.

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