military action

Questions about military action

What does military action mean?

military action means "a military engagement".

What is another word for military action?

Close synonyms include action. 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 military action a common word?

military action 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.