English Dictionary

brushfire

noun

A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which happens in forests. / (politics, attributive) A war that does not directly involve the world's superpowers.

The brushfire quickly spread across the prairie.

意味（1）

A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which happens in forests.

意味（2）

(politics, attributive) A war that does not directly involve the world's superpowers.

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.