bunker mentality

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   defensiveness resulting from repeated attacks

   “after so many suicide bombings the Israelis have to resist developing a bunker mentality”

   Broaderdefensiveness

Questions about bunker mentality

What does bunker mentality mean?

bunker mentality means "defensiveness resulting from repeated attacks".

Is bunker mentality a common word?

bunker mentality 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.