Synonyms:
armistice, cease-fire, truce
Meaning: a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
Usage examples
"Our truce is ended."
The next summer the truce for a year ended, after lasting until the Pythian games.
In Moscow a truce had been declared; both sides parleyed, awaiting the result in the capital.
Consider that I’m here under a flag of truce, and let’s see if we can’t come to an agreement.”
It was agreed that the truce should embrace not only the sovereigns, but all the adherents of each of them.
It was not an infrequent occurrence for the combatants to hold up a flag of truce while they removed some insensible comrade.
It is an enemy with which a Government may sign an occasional truce, but which it is difficult to resist for any length of time.
So exactly were all his plans laid, that the war with Sweden was declared on the very next day after the truce of the Turks was concluded.
And wet territory voted dry will bring about a greatly accelerated patronage of the photoplay houses. There is every strategic reason why these two forces should patch up a truce.
This decision of the assembly, judging that the treaty had been broken, was made in the fourteenth year of the thirty years' truce, which was entered into after the affair of Euboea.