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COUNTERINSURGENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does counterinsurgency mean?
• COUNTERINSURGENCY (noun)
The noun COUNTERINSURGENCY has 1 sense:
1. actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
Familiarity information: COUNTERINSURGENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
counterinsurgency; pacification
Hypernyms ("counterinsurgency" is a kind of...):
battle; conflict; struggle (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals))
Derivation:
counterinsurgent (of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency)
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