Peace dividend

Definition

peace /pi:s/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး။ a peace formula/plan/movement/treaty ❍ peace studies/negotiations/talks ❍ make peace between the warring factions ❍ a UN force sent to keep the peace (ie to prevent people from quarrelling or fighting) ❍ The two communities live together in peace (with one another). ❍ After years of fighting the people longed for peace. (ခ) [sing] ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေသာကာလ။ the search for a lasting peace. ၂။ [U] ေအးေအးခ်မ္းခ်မ္းရိွျခင္း။ သာယာ ေအးခ်မ္းမႈ။ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ကင္းမႈ။ disturb the peace ❍ enjoy the peace of a summer evening/the countryside ❍ I would work better if I had a bit of peace and quiet. ❍ He just wants to be left in peace (ie not to be disturbed). peace of mind (ie freedom from worry) ❍ She never felt at peace (with herself). ❍ May he rest in peace (eg carved on the stone at sb's grave). ၃။ [U] သဟဇာတျဖစ္မႈ။ ခ်စ္ၾကည္မႈ။ be at peace with the world ❍ There's never any peace between her brothers. See also BREACH OF THE PEACE, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE ❏ hold one's peace/tongue [ IDM ] ( dated ) ေရငံု ႏႈတ္ပိတ္ေနသည္။ ❏ make one's peace with sb ေျပရာေျပေၾကာင္းေျပာ၍ ရန္စသိမ္းလိုက္သည္။ ❏ the Peace Corps n [Gp] ( US ) ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးဆဲႏိုင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ မိမိဆႏၵအေလ်ာက္ သြားေရာက္ တာဝန္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ရန္ စီစဥ္ ေစလႊတ္ေပးေသာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း။ ❏ peace dividend n (usu sing ) လက္နက္ဖ်က္သိမ္းျခင္း စသည္တို႔ေၾကာင့္ ကာကြယ္ ေရးစရိတ္ ေလ်ာ့က်သြားေသာ ေငြပမာဏ။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး အက်ဳိးအျမတ္။ a peace dividend of at least $12 billion. ❏ peace-keeping adj ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းမႈ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရး။ peace-keeping operations/duties ❍ a peace-keeping force/mission. ❏ peace-loving adj ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလိုလားေသာ။ peace-loving citizens. ❏ peace-offering n ေျပရာေျပေၾကာင္း ကမ္းလွမ္းသည့္ လက္ေဆာင္။ I bought her some flowers as a peace-offering.

Examples

1. [peace in] : For many years the agreement maintained peace in Europe.
2. [peace between] : The Camp David agreement brought peace between Israel and Egypt.
3. [peace with] : Peace with Russia enabled German forces to fight in the west.
4. [a lasting peace] : The possibility of a lasting peace in the Balkans
5. [make peace (with someone)] : The UN Secretary General urged the two sides to make peace.
6. Fortunately
7. a peace satisfactory to both countries was soon negotiated.
8. A peace agreement/conference
9. Peace moves/talks/negotiations
10. There won’t be any peace until he gets what he wants.
11. Can’t I get a moment’s peace around here?
12. [peace and quiet/tranquillity] : It’s not the holiday to choose if you’re looking for peace and quiet.
13. [disturb/shatter someone’s peace] : A motorbike roared by
14. shattering their peace.
15. [in peace] : He just wanted to read his newspaper in peace.
16. You should leave the poor man in peace (=stay away from him).
17. Buddhism teaches you how to achieve inner peace.
18. [peace of mind] : With this type of insurance
19. you’re buying peace of mind.