Fightback

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A campaign of resistance; a counterattack.

    "The gay movement is in retreat as evidenced in the rise of anti-gay attacks and and ^([sic]) the success of anti-gay legislation. One only needs to read the Gay Community News to realize the severity of the anti-gay offensive. The fightback to this anti-gay offensive has been weak and disoriented. The number of gay organizations, thus the number of organized gays are shrinking, not growing."

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"City staged a late fightback, scoring an equaliser in injury time."

Etymology

From fight + back, as a deverbal from fight back.

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