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say it: PEE-skee-ping
peacekeeping is a noun and adjective meaning "the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)". It is pronounced /ˈpiˌskipɪŋ/ — PEE-skee-ping. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)
military
of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces
“a peacekeeping force”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for peacekeeping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.