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STRATEGIC WARNING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strategic warning mean?
• STRATEGIC WARNING (noun)
The noun STRATEGIC WARNING has 1 sense:
1. (military) a warning prior to the start of a threatening act
Familiarity information: STRATEGIC WARNING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(military) a warning prior to the start of a threatening act
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("strategic 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 "strategic warning"):
warning of war (a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends war or is preparing for war and is on a course that increases the risk of war)
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