transcription, транскрипция: [ wɔ:(r) ]
( wars)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A war is a period of fighting or conflict between countries or states.
He spent part of the war in the National Guard...
They’ve been at war for the last fifteen years.
≠ peace
N-VAR
2.
War is intense economic competition between countries or organizations.
The most important thing is to reach an agreement and to avoid a trade war.
N-VAR : usu with supp
3.
If you make war on someone or something that you are opposed to, you do things to stop them succeeding.
She has been involved in the war against organised crime.
...if the United States is to be successful in its war on drugs.
N-VAR : oft N against/on n
4.
see also warring , civil war , Cold War , council of war
5.
If a country goes to war , it starts fighting a war.
Do you think this crisis can be settled without going to war?
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
If two people, countries, or organizations have a war of words , they criticize each other because they strongly disagree about something. ( JOURNALISM )
Animal rights activists have been engaged in an increasingly bitter war of words with many of the nation’s zoos.
PHRASE : oft PHR between/with n
7.
to lose the battle but win the war: see battle