MILITARY ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military action mean? 

• MILITARY ACTION (noun)
  The noun MILITARY ACTION has 1 sense:

1. a military engagement

  Familiarity information: MILITARY ACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY ACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military engagement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

action; military action

Context example:

he saw action in Korea

Hypernyms ("military action" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

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 "military action"):

amphibious landing (a military action of coordinated land, sea, and air forces organized for an invasion)

battle; conflict; engagement; fight (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war)

blockade; encirclement (a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy)

defence; defense; defensive measure ((military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies)

electronic warfare; EW (military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum)

police action (a local military action without declaration of war; against violators of international peace and order)

resistance (the military action of resisting the enemy's advance)

saber rattling; sabre rattling (the ostentatious display of military power (with the implied threat that it might be used))

sally; sortie (a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position)

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)