guided missile frigate

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   a frigate that carries guided missiles

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Questions about guided missile frigate

What does guided missile frigate mean?

guided missile frigate means "a frigate that carries guided missiles".

Is guided missile frigate a common word?

guided missile frigate 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.