proxy war is a noun meaning "a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate". It carries one recorded sense.
a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for proxy war come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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