Counterinsurgent

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person combating an insurgency.

    "Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency wordnet

Example

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"Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population."

Etymology

From counter- + insurgent.

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