"buffer state" meaning in English

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      "glosses": [
        "A nation lying between potentially hostile nations."
      ],
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          "geopolitics",
          "geopolitics"
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        [
          "nation",
          "nation"
        ],
        [
          "lying",
          "lie"
        ],
        [
          "potentially",
          "potentially"
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          "hostile",
          "hostile"
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        "(geopolitics) A nation lying between potentially hostile nations."
      ],
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        "geopolitics",
        "government",
        "politics"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "nation",
          "word": "緩衝國"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "huǎnchōngguó",
          "sense": "nation",
          "word": "缓冲国"
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          "sense": "nation",
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          "word": "bufferstaat"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "nation",
          "word": "puskurivaltio"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "nation",
          "word": "État tampon"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "nation",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Pufferstaat"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "nation",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "מְדִינַת חַיִץ"
        },
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "nation",
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            "common-gender"
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          "word": "buffertstat"
        }
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        "buffer state"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "nation",
      "word": "緩衝國"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huǎnchōngguó",
      "sense": "nation",
      "word": "缓冲国"
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      "word": "Pufferstaat"
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      "word": "buffertstat"
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  "word": "buffer state"
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