Dictionary

conflict-free en · ADJ

Etymology

From conflict + -free.

Meanings

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

Deriveds

conflict-freeness

Relateds

conflict resolution

Translations (2)

de konfliktfrei (not involving any serious disagreement or argument) · pl bezkonfliktowy (not involving any serious disagreement or argument)