counterdemolition

noun

A demolition meant to retaliate for another.

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Meanings

nouncounterdemolition (uncountable)

alternative counter-demolition

  1. rareuncountableA demolition meant to retaliate for another.

    There was no counterdemolition to retaliate for the wholesale destruction carried out by the Civil Guards in the Finnish territory ceded to Russia.

    1943, Gregory Meiksins, chapter X, in The Baltic Riddle, New York: L. B. Fischer, page 185

Origin

From counter- + demolition.

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