Usually means: Win achieved at excessive cost.
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  1. pyrrhic victory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pyrrhic victory, Pyrrhic victory, pyrrhic victory: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pyrrhic victory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Pyrrhic victory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pyrrhic victory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pyrrhic victory: Wordnik
  7. Pyrrhic victory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pyrrhic victory: Wiktionary
  9. Pyrrhic victory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Pyrrhic victory: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Pyrrhic victory: Dictionary.com
  12. Pyrrhic victory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Pyrrhic victory: Rhymezone
  14. Pyrrhic Victory: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. pyrrhic victory: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pyrrhic victory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Pyrrhic victory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pyrrhic Victory: Investopedia

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  1. Pyrrhic victory: Encyclopedia

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  2. pyrrhic victory: A Word A Day
  3. pyrrhic victory: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pyrrhic victory: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pyrrhic victory)

noun:  A very costly victory, wherein the considerable losses outweigh the gain, so as to render the struggle not worth the cost.

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