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Definition cold war in British English

cold war noun

[countable/uncountable] noun
1

unfriendly relations between countries who are not at war with each other

1.1

the unfriendly relations that existed between the Soviet Union and the West from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s

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Definition cold war in British English