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proxy war (plural proxy wars)
- A war where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for, fighting each other directly.
2015 October 12, Anne Barnard, Karam Shoumali, “U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:With the enhanced insurgent firepower and with Russia steadily raising the number of airstrikes against the government’s opponents, the Syrian conflict is edging closer to an all-out proxy war between the United States and Russia.
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war where two powers use third parties
- Arabic: حرب بالوكالة
- Armenian: պրոքսի պատերազմ (prokʻsi paterazm)
- Azerbaijani: vasitəçilik müharibəsi
- Bulgarian: опосредствана война f (oposredstvana vojna)
- Catalan: guerra per delegació f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 代理人戰爭／代理人战争 (dàilǐrén zhànzhēng)
- Czech: zástupná válka f
- Danish: stedfortræderkrig c (war), stedfortræderkonflikt c (where outright war is not the case)
- Dutch: oorlog bij volmacht, proxy-oorlog
- Estonian: varisõda
- Finnish: sijaissota (fi)
- French: guerre par procuration (fr) f, guerre proxy (fr) f
- Galician: guerra subsidiaria f
- Georgian: არაპირდაპირი ომი (araṗirdaṗiri omi), ომი შუამავლის მეშვეობით (omi šuamavlis mešveobit)
- German: Stellvertreterkrieg (de) m
- Greek: πόλεμος μέσω αντιπροσώπων m (pólemos méso antiprosópon)
- Hebrew: מלחמה באמצעות שליח
- Hindi: परोक्ष युद्ध (parokṣ yuddh)
- Icelandic: staðgöngustríð n
- Indonesian: perang proksi
- Italian: guerra per procura f
- Japanese: 代理戦争 (だいりせんそう, dairi sensō)
- Korean: 대리 전쟁 (daeri jeonjaeng)
- Lithuanian: karas per trečiąsias šalis m
- Luxembourgish: Stellvertriederkrich m
- Malay: perang proksi
- Malayalam: മുക്ത്യാർ യുദ്ധം (muktyāṟ yuddhaṁ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stedfortrederkrig (no) m, stedfortrederkonflikt (no) m (where outright war is not the case)
- Persian: جنگ نیابتی (jang-e niyâbati), جنگ وکالتی (jang-e vekâlati)
- Polish: wojna zastępcza f
- Portuguese: guerra por procuração f
- Russian: опосре́дованная война́ f (oposrédovannaja vojná), прокси-война (ru) f (proksi-vojna)
- Serbo-Croatian: rat preko posrednika m, рат преко посредника m
- Sindhi: پرائي جنگ
- Spanish: guerra subsidiaria (es) f
- Swedish: proxykrig (sv) n, ombudskrig n
- Thai: สงครามตัวแทน (sǒng-kraam-dtuua-tɛɛn)
- Turkish: temsilî savaş, vekâlet savaşı
- Ukrainian: посере́дницька війна́ f (poserédnycʹka vijná)
- Vietnamese: chiến tranh ủy nhiệm
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