单词 | white war |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite war white war n. war without bloodshed; economic warfare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > cold war political warfare1765 propaganda war1838 white war1931 phoney war1939 sitzkrieg1940 cold war1945 society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > economic warfare economic war1882 economic warfare1888 white war1931 1931 Relig. Educ. 26 401/2 The white wars of commercial competition and the red wars of blood and extermination. 1939 New Statesman 3 June 878/2 Armament firms will boom more conspicuously, but the promised Government limitation of earnings or special taxations of ‘whitewar’ profits must deprive the armament or semi-armament equities of their usual attraction. 1948 F. W. Foerster in F. Gross European Ideol. xx. 748 Mussolini called this type of propaganda the ‘white war’ which preceded the red, bloody war. 2003 Agence France Presse (Nexis) 8 Jan. White War!..Unofficial reports indicate that Washington is now following a different strategy based on a ‘white battle’ to accomplish the same goal a ‘red war’ would achieve—that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein may take asylum in Russia. < as lemmas |
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