RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconnaissance in force mean? 

• RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE (noun)
  The noun RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE has 1 sense:

1. an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information)

  Familiarity information: RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("reconnaissance in force" is a kind of...):

reconnaissance; reconnaissance mission (the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy))