COUNTERMEASURE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An action taken to offset another action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("countermeasure" is a kind of...):

measure; step (any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "countermeasure"):

countermine ((military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy)

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