counterinsurgency

1. 1.

   actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

   Synonymspacification

   Broaderconflict

Other forms of counterinsurgency

plural

counterinsurgencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about counterinsurgency

What does counterinsurgency mean?

counterinsurgency means "actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency".

How many syllables are in counterinsurgency?

counterinsurgency has 6 syllables: coun-te-rin-sur-gen-cy. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /ˌkaʊntɚɪnˈsɝdʒənsi/.

What is another word for counterinsurgency?

Close synonyms include pacification. 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 counterinsurgency a common word?

counterinsurgency 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.

What rhymes with counterinsurgency?

1 word rhymes with counterinsurgency. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.