Re-escalation

Quick meaning: Re-escalation is a noun meaning (uncountable) The process of escalating again.

Meaning

(uncountable) The process of escalating again.

More Meanings

1. (countable) An instance of escalating again.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• re-escalations
• reescalation

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reescalation, re-aggravation, reaggravation, reascension, reintensification, reagitation.

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