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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 enemy
Familiarity information: LIMITED WAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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