peacekeepingpeace‧keep‧ing /ˈpiːsˌkiːpɪŋ/ adjective [only before noun] 
The United Nations has decided to send a peacekeeping force into the area.—peacekeeper noun [countable]: a group of UN peacekeepers
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.
- Had a few thousand peacekeeping troops been sent there as a sign of outside concern, that war just might have been avoided.
- If armed peacekeeping forces are needed at all, they are needed because they can fight.
- The United Nations has installed a peacekeeping force to maintain order until the elections in May 1993.
- The world needs it, for peacekeeping duties as much as for diplomatic and economic ones.
- There is no doubt at all that without the peacekeeping force the war would have been worse than it was.
- They are being held hostage with three other peacekeeping officials after being accused of spying for the Phnom Penh Government.
- They signed a protocol on interim measures to establish peacekeeping forces and military observers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES US troops taking part in the peacekeeping mission
· A large UN peacekeeping force is being assembled.
US troops taking part in the peacekeeping mission· He ruled out sending UN peacekeeping troops into the republic.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.· The United Nations has installed a peacekeeping force to maintain order until the elections in May 1993.· It is now hoped that the full peacekeeping force will be in place by the end of the month.· It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere.· They signed a protocol on interim measures to establish peacekeeping forces and military observers.· They called for the removal of Eyadema, political neutrality by the army, and the creation of a special peacekeeping force.· There is no doubt at all that without the peacekeeping force the war would have been worse than it was.· If armed peacekeeping forces are needed at all, they are needed because they can fight.
· They signed a protocol on interim measures to establish peacekeeping forces and military observers.· If armed peacekeeping forces are needed at all, they are needed because they can fight.· There are some who say that we should involve peacekeeping forces right away.
· The good sense in having communications that work is likely to lead to its services being gradually extended to all peacekeeping operations.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
peacekeeping force/troops etc a group of soldiers who are sent to a place in order to stop two opposing groups from fighting each other: - A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.
- Because Oglala was so violent at that time, we were asked to be like a peacekeeping force.
- It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere.
- The peacekeeping force has already been extended five times, and the deployment is now scheduled to end July 31.
- They called for the removal of Eyadema, political neutrality by the army, and the creation of a special peacekeeping force.
The United Nations has decided to send a peacekeeping force into the area.—peacekeeper noun [countable]: a group of UN peacekeepers