first strike

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

an attack on an enemy made before they attack you: the threat of a strategic first strike

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

first strikeEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus first strikeEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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first strike