Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun proxy_war

1 sense of proxy war

Sense 1
proxy war -- (a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate)
       => war, state of war -- (a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring")