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PRONUNCIATION OF PEACE DIVIDEND

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEACE DIVIDEND

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WHAT DOES PEACE DIVIDEND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Peace dividend

Peace dividend is a political slogan popularized by US President George H.W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the early 1990s, purporting to describe the economic benefit of a decrease in defense spending. It is used primarily in discussions relating to the guns versus butter theory. The term was frequently used at the end of the Cold War, when many Western nations significantly cut military spending.

Definition of peace dividend in the English dictionary

The definition of peace dividend in the dictionary is additional money available to a government from cuts in defence expenditure because of the end of a period of hostilities.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEACE DIVIDEND

peace accord
peace activist
peace campaign
peace campaigner
peace conference
Peace Corps
peace envoy
peace initiative
peace lobby
Peace Movement
peace of mind
peace offensive
peace offering
peace pipe
peace process
Peace River
peace sign
peace studies
peace talks
peace treaty

WORDS THAT END LIKE PEACE DIVIDEND

addend
at an end
attend
boyfriend
come to an end
cum dividend
dividend
end
ex dividend
final dividend
friend
girlfriend
headend
interim dividend
legend
pretend
recommend
send
spend
stock dividend

Synonyms and antonyms of peace dividend in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «peace dividend» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PEACE DIVIDEND

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The translations of peace dividend from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «peace dividend» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

和平红利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dividendo de la paz
570 millions of speakers

English

peace dividend
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शांति लाभांश
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

أرباح السلام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мирный дивиденд
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dividendo de paz
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শান্তি লভ্যাংশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dividendes de la paix
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dividen keamanan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Friedensdividende
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

平和の配当
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

평화 배당금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dividen damai
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cổ tức hòa bình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சமாதானப் பங்கீடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शांती लाभांश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Barış temettüsü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dividendi della pace
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dywidenda pokoju
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мирний дивіденд
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dividend de pace
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μέρισμα ειρήνης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vrede dividend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

freden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fred utbytte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of peace dividend

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PEACE DIVIDEND»

The term «peace dividend» is regularly used and occupies the 100.381 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PEACE DIVIDEND» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about peace dividend

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEACE DIVIDEND»

Discover the use of peace dividend in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to peace dividend and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reshaping the Future: Education and Postconflict Reconstruction
This publication focuses on the role that education can play, both in terms of conflict prevention and in the reconstruction of post-conflict societies, drawing on research in 52 conflict-affected countries and a review of 12 country ...
‎2005
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Military Spending, the Peace Dividend, and Fiscal Adjustment
Perceived or actual reductions in international tensions associated with the end of the Cold War have led to discussions regarding the magnitude of the “peace dividend” and its use (Gleditsch and others, 1996; Clements, Gupta and Schiff, ...
Benedict J. Clements, Hamid Reza Davoodi, Jerald Alan Schiff, 1999
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NATO Strategy in the 1990s: Reaping the Peace Dividend or ...
Released in November 1991, the Strategic Concept represents NATO's response to the dramatically changed security environment in Europe, and the intense desire to reap the resultant "peace dividend." Dr. Johnsen argues that a close ...
William T. Johnsen, 1995
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Exploding the Myth?: The Peace Dividend, Regions and Market ...
Eliminating weapon systems and military installations, particularly nuclear, is a high cost procedure and one likely to absorb a significant proportion of any ensuing peace dividend for many years. Similarly, if defence cuts mean substantial and ...
Derek Braddon, 2014
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Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community: Implications ...
The chapter employs the proxy data to demonstrate a comprehensive overview of the longitudinal change and cross-sectional interaction of two sides of the peace dividend approach: mobilization of civil society (social spending) and the ...
Bernhard Seliger, Werner Pascha, 2011
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Peacemaking
SECTORAL ANALYSIS The research can also move more deeply into analyzing what would be the dividend from a reduction in violence to various economic sectors. This is done by calculating the overall peace dividend for a country and ...
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Microeconomic Policy: A New Perspective
Indeed, a number of myths emerged, namely, that the peace dividend would be large; that it would solve a nation's economic, social and environmental problems and that adjustment problems could be ignored. Reality was different and there ...
Clement Allan Tisdell, Keith Hartley, 2008
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Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia: From Deterrence and ...
The theory of democratic peace and the peace dividend are the subject of this chapter. Both democratic peace and the peace dividend gained considerable attention with the passing of the Cold War. Part of the reason for this increased ...
George Andrew MacLean, 2006
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Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory [2 volumes]: From ...
This is done by calculating the overall peace dividend for a country and then allocating a value to each industrial sector depending on its share of GDP. The value of the peace dividend will vary from country to country depending on the size of ...
Susan Allen Nan, Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, Andrea Bartoli, 2011
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Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance: Beyond the ...
In September 2010, the term 'visible peace dividend' appeared only 26 times in ' Google scholar' and 'early peace dividend' was only 12 hits short of a 'Google whack', the term applied when Google finds nothing on a given subject. Beyond ...
David Roberts, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEACE DIVIDEND»

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Today's terror target wears a uniform - and no weapon
With the Red Menace gone, the left and the right in this country fantasized about how they would spend the so-called "peace dividend," the ... «Lewiston Morning Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Tourism is a great example of economic peace dividend
In the final days of negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, there was a frantic scramble to meet the deadline set by talks ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
3
Al-Shabab's Resilient Insurgency
How do you stabilize it after and deliver a real peace dividend to the local population? Neither AMISOM nor the Somali government is really ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
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Share tips: Relx, Bank of America and Credit Suisse
... growth oriented chief financial officer, Lex writes, as its chief executive Brian Moynihan had promised a “peace dividend” from the end of the ... «IFA Magazine, Jul 15»
5
Cutting Troops But Letting the Civilian Army Swell
At a time of increasing global tension, the American military is smaller than it was before 9/11 at the nadir of the Clinton “peace dividend” ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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McGuinness for US crisis talks
“If we are to deliver for citizens, consolidate and build on the peace, create a peace dividend, which is tangible in deprived communities which ... «Irish Echo, Jul 15»
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The Role of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR …
... and as an expedient peace dividend. In doing so, several issues are not considered in environments where DDR and CVE reintegration will ... «ISN, Jul 15»
8
Council conclusions on Mali
A transparent process is key, and all parties must stand by their commitments if the Malian people are to experience a tangible peace dividend. «StarAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Punjab: One generation lost to terrorism, losing another to drugs
While Parkash Singh Badal needs to be acknowledged for consolidating the peace dividend in the state despite pressure from the bigots, his ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
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Sri Lanka seeks grant assistance from US
COLOMBO, July 18 (Xinhua)-- Sri Lanka has sought grant assistance from the United States to provide a tangible peace dividend to its people, ... «Shanghai Daily, Jul 15»

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