How to say "ceasefire" in Japanese

• 停戦ていせんCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbThe common, general word, covering both the ceasefire and armistice senses: a halt in fighting between opposing sides, the word you reach for in news of warring parties agreeing to stop fighting.
  この停戦ていせんが世界せかい平和へいわに役立やくだつことを私達わたしたちはみな望のぞんでいる。↗

  We all hope that this cease-fire will make for world peace.
• 一時休戦いちじきゅうせん
  nounIt covers a temporary truce: a ceasefire understood as a provisional halt in fighting, not a lasting one. It is the less common word; for ceasefires in general, 停戦 is the word you want.

Use 停戦 for a ceasefire or armistice in general; reach for 一時休戦 when you want to present the halt in fighting as explicitly temporary, though it is the less common word.

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• 停戦ていせんarmistice
• 一時休戦いちじきゅうせんtemporary truce