warfare

From war +‎ fare; perhaps a shortening of Middle English werre-faringe, werfarynge (“waging war, warfare”, literally “going to war”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔɹfɛɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːfɛə/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: war‧fare

warfare (usually uncountable, plural warfares)

1. The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 28:1:

     The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.

2. Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare.

• war

warfare (third-person singular simple present warfares, present participle warfaring, simple past and past participle warfared)

1. To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

• “warfare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “warfare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• warfare in Britannica Dictionary
• warfare in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• warfare in WordReference English Collocations