noun [U]
1 the activity of fighting a war, especially using particular weapons or methods:
air / naval / guerrilla warfare * countries engaged in warfare
seealsoBIOLOGICALWARFARE, CHEMICALWARFARE, GERMWARFARE
2 the activity of competing in an aggressive way with another group, company, etc:
class / gang warfare * The debate soon degenerated into open warfare.
seealsoPSYCHOLOGICALWARFARE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for warfare is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does warfare appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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