conflict-free

English

Etymology

From conflict +‎ -free.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iː

Adjective

conflict-free (not comparable)

1. Not involving any serious disagreement or argument.
2. (relating to minerals and precious gems) Not being sold to finance fighting in areas of conflict.
3. Without any conflict or interference with anything else.
   • 2020 October 7, Gordon Dudman, “Railway timetabling is a challenge even at the best of times”, in Rail, page 48:

     If you have a copy of the 1952 BTF film Train Time, you can see a Mr Calloway proposing a retimed freight train. Each individual facet of its schedule is pored over and the schedule is only accepted once it has been 'graphed' and deemed 'conflict-free'.

Translations

not involving any serious disagreement or argument

• Polish: bezkonfliktowy (pl)

References

• “conflict-free”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.