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TACTICAL WARNING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tactical warning mean?
• TACTICAL WARNING (noun)
The noun TACTICAL WARNING has 1 sense:
1. (military) a warning after the initiation of a hostile act
Familiarity information: TACTICAL WARNING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(military) a warning after the initiation of a hostile act
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tactical 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 "tactical warning"):
warning of attack (a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future)
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