PROXY WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proxy war mean? 

• PROXY WAR (noun)
  The noun PROXY WAR has 1 sense:

1. a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROXY WAR (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)