"brushfire" meaning in English

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        "A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which occurs in forests."
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfire war.",
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          "text": "If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.",
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        "(politics, figurative, attributive) A war that arises suddenly and is limited in scope or area."
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