disengagement
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- n the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
- n to break off a military action with an enemy
- Such disengagement would have to be negotiated in summit sessions with Premier Nikita Khrushchev, thought Fulbright, since Russia's power structure makes him its only decision maker.
- Backed by the Bush Administration and a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, the disengagement plan stirred hopes for a breakthrough in the moribund peace process--an .
- The Knesset approved a resolution to accept disengagement, 76-36.