WARNING OF ATTACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warning of attack mean? 

• WARNING OF ATTACK (noun)
  The noun WARNING OF ATTACK has 1 sense:

1. a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARNING OF ATTACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

tactical warning ((military) a warning after the initiation of a hostile act)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)