DMZ
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8.1
- noun
- /diː ɛm ˈziː/
:
zona desmilitarizada
- I served in I Corps on the southern boundary of the DMZ my whole tour.
- demilitarized DMZ
- cross the DMZ
- a DMZ
But never fear, the White House sent Mike Pence to the DMZ because the situation is so serious.
- But never fear, the White House sent Mike Pence to the DMZ because the situation is so serious.
- But last week, before he left, the president was playing coy about a possible DMZ visit.
- We're out there freezing her butt off for like a few weeks on the DMZ and turns out that that team was chosen to do SERE afterwards.
- Now we launched and when we're in to layoffs above the DMZ river, they called us off.
- Like it's half north and half at the DMZ.
- You have a huge amount of Marines ready to know on Okinawa it was a big and they were going to just go right across the DMZ into Laos that way.
Examples
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Did most of my tour in Korea in the DMZ.
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Seoul, the South Korean capital, is only twenty-five miles from the DMZ, well within DPRK artillery range.
Academic text (2003) -
The next morning, we set off by bus for the DMZ.
Fiction book (1991) -
By February 1967, he was serving near the DMZ as an intelligence assistant.
Academic text (2001) -
In April 1996, North Korean troops staged military exercises in the area of the demilitarized zone (DMZ).
Academic text (1999) -
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers stood guard in places like the Korean DMZ, Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie, and West Germany's Fulda Gap.
Academic text (2010) -
In order to get from Pyongyang to Seoul, participants crossed the DMZ, which separates millions of Korean families, as a reminder that division can be overcome.
Academic text (2016) -
The armistice set up the DMZ as a buffer zone to keep the two sides apart.
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We are live at the DMZ, the border between North and South Korea.
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The heightened security at the DMZ is prompted by North Korea's statements today.
Synonyms
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4.4
An area between two sides that reduces conflict and harm
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4.8
An area where armies and weapons cannot go between two countries
Surface Forms
Etymology
DMZ is short for demilitarized zone, where de- means 'remove', military means 'soldiers or weapons', and zone means 'area'. That's why a DMZ is an area with no military forces, set up to keep armies apart and reduce the chance of fighting.