Usually means: Conflict fought through third parties.
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  1. proxy war: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. proxy war: Vocabulary.com
  3. proxy war: Wiktionary
  4. proxy war: Dictionary.com
  5. Proxy War, Proxy war: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. proxy war: Rhymezone
  7. proxy war: FreeDictionary.org
  8. proxy war: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. proxy war: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  A war where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for, fighting each other directly.

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