appeasement

ap·pease·ment  (-pzmnt)

n.

1.

a. An act of appeasing.

b. The condition of being appeased.

2. The policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace.

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appeasement [əˈpiːzmənt]

n

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the policy of acceding to the demands of a potentially hostile nation in the hope of maintaining peace

2. the act of appeasing

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

appeasement - the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) calming social control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group action pacification, mollification - the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob" placation, propitiation, conciliation - the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity

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appeasement

noun

1. pacification, compromise, accommodation, concession, conciliation, acceding, propitiation, mollification, placation He denies there is a policy of appeasement

2. easing, relieving, satisfaction, softening, blunting, soothing, quieting, lessening, lulling, quelling, solace, quenching, mitigation, abatement, alleviation, assuagement, tranquillization the appeasement of terror

Translations

appeasement [əˈpiːzmənt] N

1. (= pacification) [of person] → apaciguamiento m; [of anger] → aplacamiento m

2. (Pol) → contemporización f, entreguismo m

appeasement [əˈpiːzmənt] n (POLITICS) → apaisement m
a policy of appeasement → une politique d'apaisement
to accuse sb of appeasement → accuser qn d'être conciliant

appeasement

n (of person, anger) → Beschwichtigung f, → Besänftigung f; (Pol) → Beschwichtigung f → (durch Zugeständnisse); (of curiosity) → Befriedigung f

appeasement [əˈpiːzmənt] n (Pol) → appeasement m inv