warning of attack

1. 1.

   a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future

   Broadertactical warning

   military

Questions about warning of attack

What does warning of attack mean?

warning of attack means "a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future".

Is warning of attack a common word?

warning of attack 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.