re-escalation
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the opinion of His Majesty’s Government it is most important for political and other reasons that some limit should be fixed now, and it seems to them desirable, while avoiding any excessive increase, to fix a limit at such a level that reescalation is unlikely to be required again in the Capital Ships category during the period of the Treaty."
- "Unlike crisis escalation, crisis termination is a two-directional process in which protagonists cautiously descend the escalation ladder while simultaneously guarding against possible undetected re-escalation by one’s opponent."
- "Soviet deception may increase the likelihood of undetected non-compliance, although it also risks a re-escalation of the crisis."
- "After March 1968 American policy on Vietnam was all a retrograde operation, to use the military euphemism for retreat, punctuated only by Nixon’s temporary reescalations in 1970 and 1972."
Etymology
From re- + escalation.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re