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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 insurgencyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


COUNTERINSURGENCY (noun)


Sense 1

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))

Derivation:

counterinsurgent (of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency)


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