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The synonyms of “Armistice” are: cease-fire, truce, ceasefire, suspension of hostilities, cessation of hostilities, peace
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “armistice” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| cease-fire | A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms. |
| ceasefire | A temporary suspension of fighting; a truce. A ceasefire agreement. |
| cessation of hostilities | A stopping. |
| peace | A treaty agreeing peace between warring states. The peace didn t last. |
| suspension of hostilities | An interruption in the intensity or amount of something. |
| truce | An agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting or arguing for a certain time. The guerrillas called a three day truce. |
| brief | Instruct a barrister by brief. Introductions were brief and polite. |
| cessation | The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end. A cessation of animal testing of cosmetics. |
| discontinuance | The act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent. |
| ephemeral | An ephemeral plant. Ephemerals avoid the periods of drought as seeds. |
| finalize | Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form. Efforts intensified to finalize plans for post war reconstruction. |
| fleeting | Lasting for a very short time. For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a boy. |
| fugitive | Quick to disappear; fleeting. The fugitive effects of light. |
| halt | Come to a halt stop moving. Halt the presses. |
| hiatus | A break between two vowels coming together but not in the same syllable, as in the ear and cooperate. There was a brief hiatus in the war with France. |
| interruption | An act, utterance, or period that interrupts someone or something. Students returning to education after an interruption in their career. |
| layover | A period of rest or waiting before a further stage in a journey. There was only a forty eight minute layover. |
| moment | A quantity that expresses the average or expected value of the first second third or fourth power of the deviation of each component of a frequency distribution from a given value typically mean or zero The first moment is the mean the second moment the variance the third moment the skew and the fourth moment the kurtosis. The moment he arrived the party began. |
| momentary | Lasting for a very short time; brief. A momentary lapse of concentration. |
| mortality | Death, especially on a large scale. The causes of mortality among infants and young children. |
| negotiate | Convert (a cheque) into cash or notes. She cautiously negotiated the hairpin bend. |
| outage | A period when a power supply or other service is not available or when equipment is closed down. A planned refuelling outage. |
| parley | A negotiation between enemies. They disagreed over whether to parley with the enemy. |
| pause | Temporary inactivity. We pause for station identification. |
| permanently | In a way that lasts or remains unchanged indefinitely; for all time. He is permanently disabled. |
| provisional | A provisional stamp. A provisional government. |
| quit | Turn away from; give up. He quit as manager of the struggling Third Division team. |
| respite | Grant a respite to someone especially a person condemned to death. Some poor criminal from the gibbet or the wheel respited for a day. |
| sojourn | A temporary stay. She had sojourned once in Egypt. |
| stop | Come to a halt stop moving. Stop consonants. |
| stopover | A place where a journey is broken. They made a stopover to visit their friends. |
| suspension | Temporary cessation or suspension. The agitator in the vat keeps the slurry in suspension. |
| temporary | A worker especially in an office hired on a temporary basis. A temporary job. |
| tentative | Done without confidence; hesitant. Just a tentative schedule. |
| transitory | Not permanent. Transitory periods of medieval greatness. |
| truce | A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms. The guerrillas called a three day truce. |
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