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COUNTERINSURGENCY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does counterinsurgency mean?

• COUNTERINSURGENCY (noun)
The noun COUNTERINSURGENCY has 1 sense:

1. actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

Familiarity information: COUNTERINSURGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COUNTERINSURGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

counterinsurgency; pacification

Hypernyms ("counterinsurgency" is a kind of...):

battle; conflict; struggle (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals))

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