PREVENTIVE ATTACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preventive attack mean? 

• PREVENTIVE ATTACK (noun)
  The noun PREVENTIVE ATTACK has 1 sense:

1. a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces

  Familiarity information: PREVENTIVE ATTACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREVENTIVE ATTACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

preventive attack; preventive strike

Hypernyms ("preventive attack" is a kind of...):

strike (an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective)