surgical strike

1. 1.

   an attack (usually without prior warning) intended to deal only with a specific target

   Broaderstrike

Questions about surgical strike

What does surgical strike mean?

surgical strike means "an attack (usually without prior warning) intended to deal only with a specific target".

Is surgical strike a common word?

surgical 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.