Appeasement (Noun)
Meaning
The act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of).
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The government's decision to grant the protesters' demands was seen as an act of appeasement by many critics.
- The policy of appeasement towards the aggressive nation only seemed to embolden its leaders to make further demands.
- The company's appeasement of the disgruntled employee by offering a large settlement was widely criticized as a bad precedent.
- Historians have long debated whether the appeasement of Nazi Germany by Britain and France in the 1930s contributed to the outbreak of World War II.
- The politician's appeasement of special interest groups was seen as a cynical attempt to buy their support for her re-election campaign.