open city

English

Noun

open city (plural open cities)

1. (military, international law) A city which has announced it has abandoned all defensive efforts, generally in the event of the imminent capture.
   • 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 127:

     “You needn’t worry about bombs, by the way. Dresden is an open city. It is undefended, and contains no war industries or troop concentrations of any importance.”

Translations

city which has abandoned defensive efforts

• French: ville ouverte (fr) f
• German: offene Stadt f
• Hungarian: nyílt város
• Italian: città aperta f
• Portuguese: cidade aberta f
• Spanish: ciudad abierta f

Further reading

• open city on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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