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war game definition

war game

  1. kriegspiel
  2. practice maneuvers involving actual troops, sailors, etc. and military vehicles and equipment
  3. the testing of a plan or hypothetical situation, as in devising military strategy, by the use of a computer, simulated models, etc.
war-game definition

war·-game (wôr′gām′)

transitive verb war-gamed -·gamed′, war-gaming -·gam′ing

to examine or plan by a war game

intransitive verb

to engage in a war game

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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