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Meanings of war by proxy in English

Russian
опосредованная война
Portuguese
guerra subsidiária
Spanish
guerra por poderes
Catalan
guerra subsidiària

Conflict between two actors in which neither directly engages the other.

        опосредованная война
        Usage of war by proxy in English
        1
        Sport is the hunt, the chase; it is war by proxy.
        The Disposable Male
        2
        Even a discernible whiff of grace as Packer barges forward in his war by proxy with Murdoch.
        The Guardian
        3
        This is what they did when they loosed the armies of their puppet states against the Republic of Korea, in an evil war by proxy.
        State of the Union Addresses
        4
        Except in regard to Anne, a member of the Socialist Society, and thereafter always known as "Fred's Red", this was the cold war by proxy.
        The Guardian