nonbelligerency
Americannoun
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the state or status of not participating in a war.
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the status or policy of a nation that does not participate openly in a war but supports the cause of one of the belligerents.
Etymology
Origin of nonbelligerency
First recorded in 1935–40; non- + belligerency
Example Sentences
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They knew that another Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai seemed in the making, in exchange for a declaration of nonbelligerency in some form from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the end, Dayan proposed a "functional partition" of the West Bank in exchange for a nonbelligerency treaty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kissinger was seeking to reconcile Egypt's demand for the recovery of occupied land with Israel's insistence on some form of nonbelligerency guarantee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The government's answer might be that it does in fact have a kind of declaration of nonbelligerency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because common markets make not only for general prosperity but also for the kind of comity and nonbelligerency that flow naturally from uncoerced commercial relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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