supporting fire

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   fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat

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Questions about supporting fire

What does supporting fire mean?

supporting fire means "fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat".

Is supporting fire a common word?

supporting fire 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.