PROXY WAR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("proxy war" is a kind of...):

state of war; war (a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply)

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