STATE OF WAR


Meaning of STATE OF WAR in English

Date: 1656 1. a state of actual armed hostilities regardless of a formal declaration of war, a legal state created and ended by official declaration regardless of actual armed hostilities and usually characterized by operation of the rules of war, the period of time during which a ~ is in effect

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