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MILITARY CAPABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does military capability mean?
• MILITARY CAPABILITY (noun)
The noun MILITARY CAPABILITY has 1 sense:
1. capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
Familiarity information: MILITARY CAPABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
military capability; military posture; military strength; posture; strength
Context example:
politicians have neglected our military posture
Hypernyms ("military capability" is a kind of...):
capability; capableness (the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally)
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 "military capability"):
sea power (naval strength)
firepower ((military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target)
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