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STRATEGIC WARNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strategic warning mean? 

STRATEGIC WARNING (noun)
  The noun STRATEGIC WARNING has 1 sense:

1. (military) a warning prior to the start of a threatening actplay

  Familiarity information: STRATEGIC WARNING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STRATEGIC WARNING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(military) a warning prior to the start of a threatening act

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("strategic warning" is a kind of...):

warning (a message informing of danger)

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 "strategic warning"):

warning of war (a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends war or is preparing for war and is on a course that increases the risk of war)


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