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An agreement for the suspension of hostilities. Historically, the suspension offered by an armistice was intended to be temporary (and could be local as well as general). But since 1918 the term has increasingly connoted an intention to terminate hostilities completely. In that event, an armistice may be followed by an agreement on an armistice demarcation line and, later, by a peace treaty. Nowadays, a temporary suspension of hostilities is more likely to be called a truce or a ceasefire than an armistice. But the use of all such terms became rather imprecise during the second half of the twentieth century. |
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