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non-belligerent /nɒnbɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)nt /adjectiveNot aggressive or engaged in a war or conflict.But it also must have involved dialogue, collaboration, exchange, communication, recognition, and similar non-belligerent relations....- Sweden survived the war as a non-belligerent state by following a flexible policy which responded to the political realities of the moment while retaining some freedom of manoeuvre for the future.
- The law of Nuremberg stated simply, that it is not legal to launch a war of aggression against a passive, non-belligerent country.
nounA nation or person that is not engaged in a war or conflict.The threat of war thus disrupts financial markets and non-belligerents will try to move resources away, as will the belligerents' own nationals if they can....- Troops readily change their allegiances, while the dividing line between non-belligerents and those in active service is tenuous and easily shifted.
- The country remained a non-belligerent, but was enclosed within the area of German control.
Derivativesnon-belligerence noun ...- So strong was the latter consideration that Mussolini preferred to talk of Italian ‘non-belligerence’ and not of neutrality, which was considered a sign of weakness.
- A shamefaced request to Berlin for the eighteen million tons of strategic raw materials ostensibly needed before Italy could fight excused Mussolini's decision to announce Italy's ‘non-belligerence’.
- The neutrality or ‘non-belligerence’ of all these states was swept away by Hitler's seemingly unstoppable tide of victories in 1940 and 1941.
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