counter-sabotage

1. 1.

   counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage

   Broadercounterintelligence

Questions about counter-sabotage

What does counter-sabotage mean?

counter-sabotage means "counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage".

How many syllables are in counter-sabotage?

counter-sabotage has 5 syllables and divides as coun-ter--sa-bo-tage under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is counter-sabotage a common word?

counter-sabotage 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.