SUPPORTING FIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supporting fire mean? 

• SUPPORTING FIRE (noun)
  The noun SUPPORTING FIRE has 1 sense:

1. fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat

  Familiarity information: SUPPORTING FIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPORTING FIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("supporting fire" is a kind of...):

fire; firing (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "supporting fire"):

close supporting fire (fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it)

deep supporting fire (fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications)

direct supporting fire (fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole))