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LIMITED WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limited war mean? 

LIMITED WAR (noun)
  The noun LIMITED WAR has 1 sense:

1. a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemyplay

  Familiarity information: LIMITED WAR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIMITED WAR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)


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