buffer state

1. 1.

   a small neutral state between two rival powers

   Synonymsbuffer country

   Broadercountry

Questions about buffer state

What does buffer state mean?

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

What is another word for buffer state?

Close synonyms include buffer country. 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 state a common word?

buffer state 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.