non-belligerent
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From non- + belligerent.
Adjective
[edit]non-belligerent (not comparable)
- Alternative form of nonbelligerent
Noun
[edit]non-belligerent (plural non-belligerents)
- Alternative form of nonbelligerent
- 1943 March and April, "Mercury", “U.S.A. Express Train Services in 1942”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:
- While the United States remained a non-belligerent speeds continued unimpaired, despite the increasingly dense occupation of main-line tracks, but the entry of the U.S.A. into the war in December, 1941, made its effect felt almost immediately.
References
[edit]- “non-belligerent”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.