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COLLECTIVE SECURITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does collective security mean?
• COLLECTIVE SECURITY (noun)
The noun COLLECTIVE SECURITY has 1 sense:
1. a system for international peace
Familiarity information: COLLECTIVE SECURITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A system for international peace
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("collective security" is a kind of...):
peace (the state prevailing during the absence of war)
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