A neutral policy or attitude between contending parties or states; abstention from taking any part in a war between other states.

Maintenance of neutrality; spec. the policy of maintaining neutrality in a conflict, esp. in the Cold War.

The fact of remaining neutral. Cf. neutralize, v. 1. Obsolete.

Additional to and distinct from two others already known or mentioned. third person (in Law) = third party, n. †third place, a place which is…

Originally U.S. Refusal or failure to commit oneself to a particular view or course of action; a non-committal response.

The action, practice, policy, or state of remaining non-committal.

‘sitting on the fence’; avoidance of committing oneself to one or other of two contrary policies.

The condition of not being a partisan.

A moderate or unadventurous policy or course of action; middle-of-the-road music.

the action of ‘sitting on the fence’; also attributive.

the state of being value-free; objectiveness.