0 a short interruption in a war or argument, or an agreement to stop fighting or arguing for a period of time:
After years of rivalry the two companies have agreed ( US agreed to) a truce.
We've got to spend the weekend together, so we might as well call (= have) a truce.
Following last month's riots, two of the city's biggest gangs have finally declared a truce, ending years of bloodshed.
The fragile truce between the two sides is not expected to last long.
1 a temporary agreement to stop fighting or arguing, or a brief interruption in a disagreement:
But no one can predict how long the truce will last.
Today however there is a practical truce between old and new theories - and professionalism is the tie that binds.
His priority was a truce leading to radical reform.
Two months after the accord came into effect, the military and government officials began to voice their pessimism on the truce.
I renew my call for a truce between descriptivists and prescriptivists, but it can't work without civility and integrity on both sides.
As long as this is so, a truce seems unlikely.
The truce was based on present possession.
This changed again after the 1921 truce, when politics came up from underground, and in 1922 and 1923, when most male activists were interned or on the run.
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