buffer country

1. 1.

   a small neutral state between two rival powers

   Synonymsbuffer state

   Broadercountry

Questions about buffer country

What does buffer country mean?

buffer country means "a small neutral state between two rival powers".

What is another word for buffer country?

Close synonyms include buffer state. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buffer country a common word?

buffer country is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.