cease fire

cease fire

1. (military) Stop engaging in hostile acts, particularly those involving firearms. A command that troops end the existing status of engaging in hostile action.

cease fire (plural cease fires)

1. Alternative spelling of cease-fire
   • 1996, Tom Sine, Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in America's Culture Wars, page 280:

     I also encourage all of us to begin the cease fire in America's culture war by taking the initiative of inviting someone from the other camp to lunch.

   • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 73:

     in El Salvador, they declared a cease fire after ten years. Why didn't they think of that at the beginning?

   • 2004, R. Elizabeth Migliore, Evening Flower‎:

     On August 4 there was a cease fire in Java, the battle had lasted all of two weeks.

   • 2011, Jacob Bercovitch, Karl DeRouen Jr., Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific, page 275:

     To date around eighteen armed cease fires have been agreed between the army and armed groups of the following ethnicities...