proxy war
English
Alternative forms
- war by proxy
Noun
proxy war (plural proxy wars)
- A war where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for, fighting each other directly.
- 2015 October 12, Anne Barnard; Karam Shoumali, “U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- With the enhanced insurgent firepower and with Russia steadily raising the number of airstrikes against the government’s opponents, the Syrian conflict is edging closer to an all-out proxy war between the United States and Russia.
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Hypernyms
- war
Translations
war where two powers use third parties
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Further reading
proxy war on Wikipedia.Wikipedia