SPECIAL AIR SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Special Air Service mean? 

• SPECIAL AIR SERVICE (noun)
  The noun SPECIAL AIR SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups)

  Familiarity information: SPECIAL AIR SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECIAL AIR SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

SAS; Special Air Service

Hypernyms ("Special Air Service" is a kind of...):

commando (an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)