RECONNOITERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconnoitering mean? 

• RECONNOITERING (noun)
  The noun RECONNOITERING has 1 sense:

1. exploring in order to gain information

  Familiarity information: RECONNOITERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONNOITERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exploring in order to gain information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

exploratory survey; reconnoitering; reconnoitring; scouting

Context example:

scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous

Hypernyms ("reconnoitering" is a kind of...):

reconnaissance; reconnaissance mission (the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy))

Derivation:

reconnoiter (explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody)

 Context examples 

But the mulatto’s heart was with it, and he was driven back to it next day, when, on reconnoitering through the window, he found policeman Walters in possession.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)