Brushfire
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Brushfire is a noun meaning A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which occurs in forests.
Meaning
A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which occurs in forests.
More Meanings
- (politics, figurative, attributive) A war that arises suddenly and is limited in scope or area.
Example Sentences
If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.
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.
Word Forms
- brushfires
- brush fire
- brush-fire
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brush fire, brush, scrub, shrubland, puckerbrush, scrubland.
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