special air service

1. 1.

   a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups)

   SynonymsSAS

   Broadercommando

   United Kingdom

Questions about special air service

What does special air service mean?

special air service means "a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups)".

What is another word for special air service?

Close synonyms include SAS. 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 special air service a common word?

special air service 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.