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