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Force majeure   /fɔrs mədʒˈur/   Listen
Force majeure

noun
1.
A natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events.  Synonyms: act of God, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major.






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"Force majeure" Quotes from Famous Books



... April 3, 1906, inviting the Powers to a second Peace Conference, included amongst the topics for discussion: "Destruction par force majeure des batiments de commerce neutres arretes comme prises," and the British delegates were instructed to urge the acceptance of what their Government had maintained to be the existing rule on the subject. The Conference of 1907 declined, however, to define existing ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland



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