Meaning

1 senses
  1. The practice of nations creating mutual tariffs or similar barriers to trade.

    Meronyms: trade barrier, barrier to trade

    Handelskrieg

    торго́вая война́torgóvaja vojná

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Is the trade war a real thing, or is it going to peter out?

  2. On seeing the stock market, the dictator backed down from his planned trade war.

  3. There is no trade war between the US and Algeria.

  4. The director of the World Trade Organization, Roberto Azevedo, responded coolly, saying, “A trade war is in no one’s interests.”

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
practice of nations creating mutual tariffs:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
practice of nations creating mutual tariffs:

Forms

plural: trade wars
Singulartrade war
Pluraltrade wars

regular

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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