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What (who) is Pyrrhic victory - definition


Pyrrhic victory         
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VICTORY AT AN UNSUSTAINABLE COST
Pyrrhic Victory; Phyrric victory; Pyhrric victory; Empty victory; Pyhrric Victory; Pyrrhic defeat; Pyrhhic victory; Winning the battle but losing the war; Hollow victory; Pyrrhic victories
A Pyrrhic victory ( ) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Such a victory negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress.
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  • alt=A street of ruined buildings with rubble strewn across the road. A red tractor and other vehicles are visible parked in the background
  • alt=Men waving sabers on horseback charge across a bridge, surrounded by figures struggling in hand-to-hand combat
VICTORY AT AN UNSUSTAINABLE COST
Pyrrhic Victory; Phyrric victory; Pyhrric victory; Empty victory; Pyhrric Victory; Pyrrhic defeat; Pyrhhic victory; Winning the battle but losing the war; Hollow victory; Pyrrhic victories
Pyrrhic victory         
  • alt=A street of ruined buildings with rubble strewn across the road. A red tractor and other vehicles are visible parked in the background
  • alt=Men waving sabers on horseback charge across a bridge, surrounded by figures struggling in hand-to-hand combat
VICTORY AT AN UNSUSTAINABLE COST
Pyrrhic Victory; Phyrric victory; Pyhrric victory; Empty victory; Pyhrric Victory; Pyrrhic defeat; Pyrhhic victory; Winning the battle but losing the war; Hollow victory; Pyrrhic victories
also pyrrhic victory
If you describe a victory as a Pyrrhic victory, you mean that although someone has won or gained something, they have also lost something which was worth even more.
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Examples of use of Pyrrhic victory
1. "Welfare reform could be a Pyrrhic victory," Sawhill said.
2. But this would be a Pyrrhic victory, for the price would be freedom and democracy themselves.
3. A successful fight in an employment tribunal brings only a pyrrhic victory.
4. McCain‘s pyrrhic victory is that under the deal, lip service to Common Article 3 remains.
5. President Musharraf has been re–elected, but it is a pyrrhic victory.