Usually means: Prolonged conflict exhausting both sides.
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  1. war of attrition: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. war of attrition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. war of attrition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. war of attrition: Wiktionary
  5. War Of Attrition (horse), War of Attrition (album), War of Attrition (disambiguation), War of Attrition (horse), War of Attrition, War of attrition (game), War of attrition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (war of attrition)

noun:  (military) A prolonged war in which the warring sides try to defeat their opponents by wearing them out.
noun:  (figuratively) A situation in which opponents try to overcome each other by wearing them out.

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