close support

1. 1.

   close-in firing by one unit against an enemy engaged by another unit

   Broadersupport

Questions about close support

What does close support mean?

close support means "close-in firing by one unit against an enemy engaged by another unit".

Is close support a common word?

close support 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.