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".