RECONNOITRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconnoitring mean? 

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

1. exploring in order to gain information

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONNOITRING (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 ("reconnoitring" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

All this, with convoying, reconnoitring, and risking one’s own ship in order to gain a knowledge of the enemy’s movements, comes under the duties of the commander of a cruiser.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)