noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chemical warfare (= the use of chemical weapons in wars )
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There is now also the threat of chemical warfare.
chemical warfare
gang warfare (= fighting between gangs )
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Gang warfare is wrecking the neighborhood.
germ warfare
guerrilla war/warfare
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American troops found themselves fighting a guerrilla war.
trench warfare
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
biological
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He knew then that the mystery of Titron was only partly explained by the secret biological warfare establishment.
chemical
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Unlike snakes, lizards have not specialised in chemical warfare .
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It was during the episode of Supersense on chemical warfare and trap strategy.
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The Soviet Union's response has been a relentless increase in its chemical warfare capability.
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The only other type of mammal to employ chemical warfare is the duck-billed platypus.
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There was also the threat of chemical warfare .
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But the war was over, and the pressure to investigate chemical warfare agents disappeared.
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The outbreak of a new war made defence against chemical warfare agents once again an urgent problem.
economic
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According to a member of the United States delegation, a spirit of economic warfare permeated the conference.
guerrilla
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New Delhi need do no more than keep Kashmir under military occupation and keep the lid on guerrilla warfare .
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The directive did not yet call for guerrilla warfare .
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It gives detailed instructions on guerrilla warfare , converting shotguns into grenade-launchers and building home-made silencers for pistols.
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I was in the jungle now and developing a taste for guerrilla warfare .
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She did not notice that we had left the age of guerrilla warfare .
internecine
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To try to cut down on internecine warfare , Mr Florio oversaw annual meetings at which he encouraged publishers to work together.
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Yet over the years internecine warfare has played an important role in shaping the Republican Party.
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Proponents blamed internecine warfare among term-limits supporters for the setback.
modern
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It would be ironic if a version capable of industrialising the practice becomes part of the landscape of modern warfare .
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We need to remember that, unlike modern warfare , medieval campaigns were seasonal.
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As the only country with first-hand experience of modern missile warfare at sea Britain will benefit from its hard learned lesson.
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The age of modern naval warfare was at hand.
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So much of modern warfare is not present to itself, takes place in the mind as if nowhere.
nuclear
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That is, each side would promise not to be the first to launch nuclear weapons in warfare .
open
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Conflict is either avoided or is allowed to develop into open warfare . 6.
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Hostility bordering on open warfare is typical of spouse-staff relations.
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Since May 1998 they have been in-or close to-\#open warfare .
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One night spent together didn't make a relationship out of open warfare .
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For a time it was almost open warfare between them.
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The lifelong feud between Jamie and Charles had turned into open warfare , then.
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Perhaps it wasn't a good idea to launch into open warfare against some one like Eleanor.
political
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Mardonios in Thessaly continued Persia's political warfare .
psychological
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Like the military machinery, the psychological warfare gets ever more sophisticated.
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A portable sound system blared military marches, part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare .
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As a last resort he decided to take a leaf out of the Oriental's book, by using psychological warfare against him.
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But no one was better equipped for the psychological warfare that lay ahead.
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Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue.
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Secrecy was out of the question; it would riot have been psychological warfare .
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During the war he worked in psychological warfare , and doubtless learnt many of his more infuriating tricks of debating and persuasion.
spiritual
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We can not afford to be lackadaisical in our spiritual warfare .
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But confronting the principalities of darkness which foster this insidious violence has meant experiencing spiritual warfare as never before.
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But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern.
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They will also be concerned to engage in spiritual warfare .
tribal
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The tribal warfare between groups of chimps is both a cause and a consequence of the male tendency to build alliances.
■ NOUN
class
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He accuses Boxer and others who are trying to outlaw his handguns of waging a kind of class warfare .
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In short, the class warfare wing of the Democratic Party remains in control.
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This is pure, vulgar class warfare without a howling proletariat.
gang
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They become so excited during this gang warfare that humans can approach them much more closely than at other times.
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As you see, the perfect recipe for gang warfare .
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Dexter's interest lies not in gang warfare , but in the character of Peter Flood.
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By 2015, bitter enmities played themselves out in gang warfare , narcotics traffic, and addiction.
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This was gang warfare of a thoroughly nasty kind.
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This was no jailhouse rock, this was gang warfare .
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The gang warfare ripping through the shanties is fuelled by what has replaced politics after Aristide: prostitution, drugs and ritual.
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Black and Latino Angelenos living in this area experienced joblessness, gang warfare , urban blight.
information
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For now, each branch of the military is studying how to engage in and protect itself against information warfare .
jungle
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Now the guides' training in jungle warfare came into its own.
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For jungle warfare , Charlie had much better weapons: the AK47.
trench
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More years of trench warfare and carnage on the Western Front.were now almost unavoidable.
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The little-noticed trench warfare over Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is nothing new.
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Lastly, trench warfare is a policy Mr Yeltsin has pursued with some success for much of the past 12 months.
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Yet to continue trench warfare as before would be a mistake.
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The musical evokes the courage and humour of the troops amidst the horror of trench warfare .
■ VERB
engage
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It is engaged in internecine warfare over the general provision of indemnity insurance for investors.
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While the Germanic tribes were not always engaged in warfare , they were in a state of constant preparation for it.
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They will also be concerned to engage in spiritual warfare .
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She had come to wage peace, only to discover she was equally willing to engage in warfare .
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For nearly a year, Sotheby's and Christie's engaged in warfare to secure the estate sale.
use
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Traditionally they were signals used in warfare , one to announce the attack, the other the retreat.
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As a last resort he decided to take a leaf out of the Oriental's book, by using psychological warfare against him.
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How has the cat been used in warfare ?
wage
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Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue.
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President Clinton and the Republican Senate are waging election-year warfare over the confirmation of 135 presidential appointees.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
biological weapons/warfare/attack etc
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He knew then that the mystery of Titron was only partly explained by the secret biological warfare establishment.
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Regional conflicts - along with the proliferation of missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons - present growing dangers.
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Schwarzkopf strongly defended his field commanders from allegations that they were careless about chemical and biological weapons.
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We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons, while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.
psychological warfare
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A portable sound system blared military marches, part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare.
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As a last resort he decided to take a leaf out of the Oriental's book, by using psychological warfare against him.
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But no one was better equipped for the psychological warfare that lay ahead.
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During the war he worked in psychological warfare, and doubtless learnt many of his more infuriating tricks of debating and persuasion.
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Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue.
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Like the military machinery, the psychological warfare gets ever more sophisticated.
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Secrecy was out of the question; it would riot have been psychological warfare.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a secret underground chemical warfare plant
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Many people believe that what happened in 1940 was a British chemical warfare experiment that went wrong.
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the history of modern warfare
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The rebels aimed to overthrow the government through protracted guerrilla warfare .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As in human warfare , chemical defences are essentially deterrents rather than everyday weapons.
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It quickly made Hanoi the most heavily bombed city in the history of warfare .