buffer zone

1. 1.

   a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict

   Synonymsbuffer

   Broaderzone

Questions about buffer zone

What does buffer zone mean?

buffer zone means "a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict".

What is another word for buffer zone?

Close synonyms include buffer. 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 zone a common word?

buffer zone 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.