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    3. 抑止

    抑止

    抑よく止し

    check

    KMT6News #12+1CoreNoun, Participle, Verb, TransitivePolitics & LawKanji Vocab11 strokes

    よくし

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    check, checkmate, stave off, control, restraint, inhibit, deterrent, deterrence

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    犯はん罪ざいの抑よく止しに努つとめる。

    Strive to deter crime.

    KMT5Politics & Law
    核かく兵へい器きは戦せん争そうの抑よく止し力りょくとして機き能のうする。

    Nuclear weapons function as a deterrent to war.

    KMT6Politics & LawMilitary
    国こく際さい社しゃ会かいは、紛ふん争そうの拡かく大だいを抑よく止しするために協きょう力りょくすべきだ。

    The international community should cooperate to deter the escalation of conflicts.

    KMT7Politics & Law
    敵てきの侵しん攻こうを抑よく止しするため、国こっ境きょうに部ぶ隊たいが配はい備びされた。

    Troops were deployed to the border to deter enemy invasion.

    KMT7MilitaryPolitics & Law
    経けい済ざい制せい裁さいは、その国くにの軍ぐん事じ行こう動どうを抑よく止しする効こう果かがあると考かんがえられている。

    Economic sanctions are thought to have the effect of deterring that country's military actions.

    KMT8Politics & LawBusiness & FinanceMilitary

    Kanji that make up this word

    抑
    おさ.える…(1)
    repress・well・now・in the first place・push…(4)
    止
    と.まる・-ど.まり・と.める・-と.める・-ど.め・とど.める…(10)
    stop・halt
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