Definition of Buffer state

1. Noun. A small neutral state between two rival powers.

Exact synonyms: Buffer Country
Generic synonyms: Country, Land, State

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buffer State

buffe
buffed
buffel duck
buffel ducks
buffer
buffer capacity
buffer country
buffer index
buffer overflow
buffer overflows
buffer pair
buffer solution
buffer state (current term)
buffer storage
buffer store
buffer value
buffer value of the blood
buffer zone
buffer zones
bufferable
buffered
buffered aspirin
buffered crystalline penicillin G
bufferhead
bufferheads
buffering
bufferless

Literary usage of Buffer state

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. China's New Constitution and International Problems by Min-chʻien T. Z. Tyau (1918)
"buffer state As far as this country is concerned, the main drawback of such a convention is the admission that Russia has a concurrent right of control or ..."

2. Russia in Asia: A Record and a Study, 1558-1899 by Alexis Sidney Krausse (1899)
"... reliable information in official circles—Weakness of British foreign policy—Its cause—The theory of a ' buffer state'— The ' open door' craze—Remarkable ..."

3. The Sikhs and the Sikh Wars: The Rise, Conquest, and Annexation of the by Charles Gough, Arthur Donald Innes (1897)
"... Dost Mohammed—Persia and Russia—A buffer- state—British resolve to restore Shah ... bufferstate ..."

4. Asia: A Geography Reader by Ellsworth Huntington (1912)
"... CHAPTER XI AFGHANISTAN: THE "buffer state" On the Frontier. Some British officers were at breakfast one spring morning at the military club at Peshawar, ..."

5. Cavalry Studies: Strategical and Tactical by Douglas Haig (1907)
"Measures to be taken with regard to a " buffer state. ... The population of the buffer state consists of a number of mixed races which are traditionally ..."

6. Lepcha Land: Or, Six Weeks in the Sikhim Himalayas, by Florence Donaldson by Mrs Florence Donaldson (1900)
"... LEPCHA LAND CHAPTER I. CALCUTTA TO SILIGURI. lining a holiday—Where to go—The buffer state—Sikhim— Preliminary arrangements—" ..."

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