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 ceasefire
   • 1996, Tom Sine, Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in America's Culture Wars, p. 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.

   • 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, p. 275:

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