psychological operation

1. 1.

   military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments

   Synonymspsyop

   Broaderoperation

   military

Questions about psychological operation

What does psychological operation mean?

psychological operation means "military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments".

What is another word for psychological operation?

Close synonyms include psyop. 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 psychological operation a common word?

psychological operation 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.