MBFR
Politics
noun
Mutual and balanced force reduction(s), the reciprocal and proportionate reduction in armed forces by the countries of NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the 1970s and 1980s; frequently attributive.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The Economist.
- make a move
- make a move on (or put the moves on)
- make a muck of
- make a name for oneself
- make an ass of oneself
- make-and-break
- make an effort
- make an end of
- make an enemy of
- make an example of
- make an exhibition of oneself
- make an honest woman of
- make an issue of
- make a noise
- make an (or one's) entrance
- make a (or no) difference
- make a (or one's) fortune
- make a (or one's) pile
- make a pig of oneself
- make a pig's ear of
- make a pitch
- make a plan
- make a play for
- make a point of
- make a present of