Definition of Buffer country

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buffer Country

buffaloed
buffaloes
buffalofish
buffalofishes
buffaloing
buffalos
buffe
buffed
buffel duck
buffel ducks
buffer
buffer capacity
buffer country (current term)
buffer index
buffer overflow
buffer overflows
buffer pair
buffer solution
buffer state
buffer storage
buffer store
buffer value
buffer value of the blood
buffer zone
buffer zones

Literary usage of Buffer country

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

1. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Mississippi Historical Society, Franklin Lafayette Riley (1903)
"In the negotiation» before the treaty England had declined to adopt the French suggestion to create a neutral ground, or buffer country, to be reserved for ..."

2. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1904)
"... ready for future growth, but' practically the land hunger of the Anglo-Saxons was to offer great obstacles to the preservation of such a buffer country. ..."

3. The Colonization of the South by Peter Joseph Hamilton (1904)
"... ready for future growth, but practically the land hunger of the Anglo-Saxons was to offer great obstacles to the preservation of such a buffer country. ..."

4. Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the by Peter Joseph Hamilton (1897)
"This practically adopted the French proposition of an Indian buffer country, but under English control. The first governor of West Florida was George ..."

5. The Neutrality of Belgium: A Study of the Belgian Case Under Its Aspects in by Alexander Fuehr (1915)
"... possible whereby, mainly for her own ends, a Continental state had been obliged to garrison the buffer-country Belgium, which belonged to a third Power. ..."

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