reconnaissance mission

Questions about reconnaissance mission

What does reconnaissance mission mean?

reconnaissance mission means "the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)".

What is another word for reconnaissance mission?

Close synonyms include reconnaissance. 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 reconnaissance mission a common word?

reconnaissance mission 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.