CASUS BELLI

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An event used to justify starting a war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("casus belli" is a kind of...):

beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)

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