war game
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3.9
- noun
- /wɔr ɡeɪm/
- Specialized
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simulación militar
- American military forces will conduct a month of war games in the Persian Gulf beginning Wednesday.
- play war games
- conduct war games
- war game exercise
So we had war games, a pretty painful outcome.
- So we had war games, a pretty painful outcome.
- There was a president you talk about that played a nuclear war game and discovered that there could be no winners.
- And because the proud prophet war game, nuclear war game was declassified, Bracken could speak about it in a general manner.
Examples
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Six months later, we were prepared for intensive summer war games at Fort Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota.
Fiction book (1990) -
Last year, the Air Force's biggest annual war game looked at the Mideast and Korea.
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What we need is to practice war games out in the open.
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Why do we always have to play war games?
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This is no way to conduct a war game.
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Last year, the Centre First Strategic and International Studies conducted a war game involving a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
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US Navy Admiral Tarr won a war game he was supposed to lose: Pearl Harbor attack.
Blog text (6) -
I've seen tons of war games simulations, including this exact scenario.
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A B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter were out playing war games when they collided, severely damaging both.
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U.S. and South Korean navy ships are conducting war games this morning despite North Korean threats of retaliation.
Synonyms
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7.4
A large military training exercise to prepare troops for battle
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4.5
A game that copies military battles for training and study
A training activity where soldiers rehearse battle actions in realistic conditions without real fighting
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a simulated military operation' is directly derivable from combining 'war' (armed conflict) with 'game' (a structured, often simulated contest); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a game or simulation about war. This noun–noun compounding pattern is compositional and common across languages, so the sense is immediately accessible rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
War game comes from soldiers pretending to fight so they can try ideas safely, treating a real war like a training game. That's why it means 'a practice or test of military plans'.