preventive strike

1. 1.

   a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces

   Synonymspreventive attack

   Broaderstrike

Questions about preventive strike

What does preventive strike mean?

preventive strike means "a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces".

What is another word for preventive strike?

Close synonyms include preventive attack. 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 preventive strike a common word?

preventive strike 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.