armed combat

Questions about armed combat

What does armed combat mean?

armed combat means "an engagement fought between two military forces".

What is another word for armed combat?

Close synonyms include combat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is armed combat a common word?

armed combat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.