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PROXY WAR
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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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