LOGISTIC SUPPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logistic support mean? 

• LOGISTIC SUPPORT (noun)
  The noun LOGISTIC SUPPORT has 1 sense:

1. assistance between and within military commands

  Familiarity information: LOGISTIC SUPPORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGISTIC SUPPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assistance between and within military commands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

logistic assistance; logistic support

Hypernyms ("logistic support" is a kind of...):

support (the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logistic support"):

integrated logistic support (the pooling of specific resources by subscribing nations for the support of some joint operation)

international logistic support; mutual aid (arrangements made between nations to assist each other)

interagency support; interdepartmental support (provision of logistic (or administrative) support by one or more of the military services to one or more departments or agencies of the United States government)

inter-service support (action by one military service to provide logistic (or administrative) support to another military service)

 Context examples 

Ary Rongel Commandant Antônio Braz de Souza said that the main task of the ship is to offer support for the Brazilian Antarctic Program, with logistic support for the Emergency Antarctic Modules.

(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)