🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

유화책

Native Script:유화정책

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yuhwachaek

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Appeasement/əˈpiːz.mənt/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그들은 침략자에 대한 유화책을 포기했습니다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or process of pacifying someone by acceding to their demands.

    "The government's policy of appeasement failed to prevent the outbreak of conflict."
  2. 2

    The diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.

    "Historians continue to debate whether the strategy of appeasement was a necessary gamble or a fatal miscalculation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English verb 'appesen', originating from the Old French 'apaisier', which combines the prefix 'a-' (from Latin 'ad-') and 'pais' (peace). It evolved through the centuries to denote the act of pacifying or soothing, gaining significant political notoriety in the 1930s regarding diplomatic concessions to aggressive powers.

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