war
/wɔːr/ nounDefinition
FIGHTING [C, U] › fighting, using soldiers and weapons, between two or more countries, or two or more groups inside a country: They've been at war for the past five years. He was only a child when the war broke out (= started). If this country goes to war (= starts to fight in a war), thousands of people will die.
COMPETING [C, U] › when two or more groups are trying to be more successful than each other: a price war between supermarkets
TO STOP [no plural] › an attempt to stop something bad or illegal: the war against crime/drugs → See also civil war → See also prisoner of war → See also world war
(Definition of war noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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