Meaning

Targeting or countering combatants. (Describing, for example, a strike that targets enemy troop concentrations, as opposed to a counterindustrial strike that targets enemy industry.).

Definitions by Sense

1. Targeting or countering combatants. (Describing, for example, a strike that targets enemy troop concentrations, as opposed to a counterindustrial strike that targets enemy industry.)
2. (heraldry, of two animals) 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[…]

Word Forms

• counter-combatant
• counter-combattant

When Should You Use Countercombatant?

Use countercombatant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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