In dictionaries:
to hold out an olive branch
Operation Olive Branch
an invasion of Syria conducted by the Turkish Armed Forces and Syrian National Army in the majority-Kurdish Afrin District of northwest Syria, against the People's Protection Units of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Olive Branch Petition
adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, 1775 in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America.
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