Similar words: buffer, buffer zone, buffering, overstate, transfer station, understate, interstate, understated. Meaning: n. a small neutral state between two rival powers.
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1. Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.
2. The puppet buffer state keeps South Korea's democracy far from China's border.
3. Before World War II, Mongolia served as a buffer state between Japan and the Soviet Union, and after, between the USSR and China.
4. China is the North's key trade partner, aid supplier and political supporter; Beijing still views its wartime ally as a critical buffer state on its northeast flank.
5. A cross-layer transmission control scheme based on Cognitive Radio(CR) for average power minimization under the constraints of collision with licensed user and buffer state is addressed.
6. Britain's foreign-policy aim, which it ultimately achieved, was to ensure that Afghanistan remained a buffer state outside the influence of imperial competitors, such as the Russians.
7. While China has benefited from having a weak, dependent and friendly buffer state on its border, Cold War geopolitics from more than 50 years ago have given way to a new geopolitical economy.
8. In that despatch Mr Chun reportedly says some Chinese officials were willing to "face the new reality" that North Korea was of little value to China as a buffer state.
More similar words: buffer, buffer zone, buffering, overstate, transfer station, understate, interstate, understated, overstatement, understatement, interstate commerce, overstuffed, understaffed, interstate commerce commission, buffet, power station, buffeted, buffeting, suffer, duffer, puffery, sufferer, suffering, water buffalo, sufferance, suffer from, insufferable, refers to, long-suffering, staffer.