BUFFER ZONE Definition & Meaning

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buffer zone

noun

a neutral zone or area between two potentially hostile nations, designed to prevent any overt acts of aggression.
any area serving to mitigate or neutralize potential conflict.

buffer zone

noun

an area lying between two states and providing each with protection from the other

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of buffer zone¹

First recorded in 1905–10

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It has also occupied a demilitarised buffer zone, set up after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, and has sent forces onto the Syrian side of a nearby mountain, setting up nine bases across the area.

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A woman at the centre of a free speech controversy involving the US government has been found guilty of breaching a "buffer zone" outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic.

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Israel has already significantly expanded a buffer zone around the edge of Gaza over the course of the war, and seized control of a corridor of land cutting through its centre.

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During their previous operation in Rafah, Israeli forces seized a strategic buffer zone along the border with Egypt and did not withdraw from it as called for in the ceasefire agreement.

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Russia too, he says, has been trying to create a buffer zone inside Ukrainian territory.

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