Definition of "peace treaty" []

• An agreement to end fighting or conflict. (noun)

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• "Expecting that when the peace treaty was signed, the terms would include the surrender of the German vessels and aware that Reuter might try to scuttle them first, the Allied Naval Council on June 20 authorized seizure of the interned ships at the moment the armistice expired: 7: 00 p.m. on June 23."
• "Herr Messerschmitt was parting from Herr Luftfahrt-minister Goring with the sum of four million marks credited to him privately for the development of his fighter plane as a part of Hitler's conspiracy to break the peace treaty of 1919 and rearm Germany with military aircraft."
• "Then, in the summer of 1977, as NSC aide William Quandt recalled, Vance essentially took charge of Middle East policy at a PRC meeting, and he retained this role until the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in March 1979."