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View synonyms for buffer state
buffer state
noun
- a nation lying between potentially hostile larger nations.
buffer state
noun
- a small neutral state between two rival powers
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Word History and Origins
Origin of buffer state1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
I took my seat beside him, while the lady, a useful little buffer state, was squeezed in between the two men of wrath at the back.
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She sketches out a letter to be written to the lady who is at present a buffer-state between the dried man and the parched women.
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The “buffer-state” of modern diplomacy is of the same ineffectual type.
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The fierce mountaineers had allied themselves with Median tribes and overrun the buffer State of the Mannai.
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And the little buffer state began to be very wise and politic and energetic.
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