brushfire
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Is brushfire a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (politics, figurative, attributive) A war that arises suddenly and is limited in scope or area.Examples: "It may be a brushfire operation or an operation on the scale of the Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities."; "I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfire war."; "If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way."attributivefiguratively
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