countercombatant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Targeting or countering combatants. (Describing, for example, a strike that targets enemy troop concentrations, as opposed to a counterindustrial strike that targets enemy industry.)
adj
Facing each other (like combattant animals), especially in on either side of a charge.
Example Sentences
- "In this and other articles Russett advocated a countercombatant deterrent. The Russians are adequately deterred by a credible threat that the U.S. can and will wipe out their army on the Chinese border; there is no need to aim at[…]"
- "It is the thesis of this article that the broad outlines of such a deterrent would include an ethnic-based countercombatant, counterindustrial targeting doctrine. Within this framework, declaratory policies and force procurement[…]"
- "Post-Cold War U.S. nuclear counterforce could allow for countercombatant targeting against military infrastructure and power projection capabilities of armies, navies, and air forces, without seeking the destabilizing[…]"
- "the popular understanding nor in the U.S. security elite community is there sufficient appreciation of the possibilities and requirements of a countercombatant strategy."
- "Arms. G. 2 lions countercombatant O. quartering A. on a pale B. 3—A."
- "Quarterly, 1st gu. on a chev. ar. a rose betw. two lions countercombatant of the first, for HEPBURN; 2nd, az. a ship or, her sails furled ar. within a double tressure flory counterflory of the second, as Duke of Orkney: 3rd[…]"
Inflected Forms
counter-combatant (alternative)
counter-combattant (alternative)