English
Alternative forms
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.
Translations
war where two powers use third parties
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 代理戰爭, 代理战争 (dàilǐ zhànzhēng)
- French: guerre par procuration (fr) f
- German: Stellvertreterkrieg (de) m
- Japanese: 代理戦争 (だいりせんそう, dairi sensō)
- Korean: 대리 전쟁 (daeri jeonjaeng)
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- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stedfortrederkrig (no) m, stedfortrederkonflikt (no) m (where outright war is not the case)
- Russian: опосре́дованная война́ f (oposrédovannaja vojná)
- Thai: สงครามตัวแทน (sǒng-kraam-dtuua-tɛɛn)
- Ukrainian: посере́дницька війна́ f (poserédnycʹka vijná)
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