different between brushfire vs wildfires

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brush +? fire

brushfire (plural brushfires)

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.
- 1958, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Foreign Trade Policy, Foreign Trade Policy: Hearings, Eighty-fifth Congress (page 651)
  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.
- 1959, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Financial statements of field commanders (page 251)
  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.
- 1963, Philip Van Slyck, Peace: the Control of National Power (page 14)
  If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.

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