operational damage

1. 1.

   loss of military equipment in field operations

   Synonymsoperational casualty

   Broaderdamage

   military

Questions about operational damage

What does operational damage mean?

operational damage means "loss of military equipment in field operations".

What is another word for operational damage?

Close synonyms include operational casualty. 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 operational damage a common word?

operational damage 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.