Countercombatant

Quick meaning: Countercombatant is an adjective meaning (heraldry, of two animals) Facing each other (like combattant animals), especially in on either side of a charge.

Meaning

(heraldry, of two animals) Facing each other (like combattant animals), especially in on either side of a charge.

More Meanings

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.)

Example Sentences

Arms. G. 2 lions countercombatant O. quartering A. on a pale B. 3—A.

the popular understanding nor in the U.S. security elite community is there sufficient appreciation of the possibilities and requirements of a countercombatant strategy.

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[…]

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

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