limited war

1. 1.

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

   Broaderwar

Questions about limited war

What does limited war mean?

limited war means "a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy".

Is limited war a common word?

limited war is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.