total fighting

British  

noun

1. a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used

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Example Sentences

The roughly 200,000 black Americans who served in the Union Army comprised an estimated 10 percent of the North’s total fighting force.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2018

The Leafs found themselves in the bottom third of NHL teams in that category with just 13 total fighting majors before facing Winnipeg on Thursday night.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2012

The total fighting force consisted of 202 galleys, six galleasses, and 28,000 infantrymen besides sailors and oarsmen.

From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver

On the basis of normal wastage and the present scale of drafts my total fighting strength by the middle of December, including the French, will be only, say, 60,000.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Hamilton, Ian, Sir

The total war strength is a little more than 85,000 men, and the total fighting population is approximately 470,000.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly