pyrrhic victory

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   a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses

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Questions about pyrrhic victory

What does pyrrhic victory mean?

pyrrhic victory means "a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses".

Is pyrrhic victory a common word?

pyrrhic victory 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.