counteroperation

noun

A military operation in response to another operation.

Scrabble 20
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nouncounteroperation (plural counteroperations)

plural counteroperations

  1. A military operation in response to another operation.

    In recent months, those tactics have come to include defensive maneuvers aimed at defusing the media counteroperations of the United States and its allies.

    2008 April 4, Michael Moss, “Rising Leader for Next Phase of Al Qaeda’s War”, in New York Times

Origin

From counter- + operation.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

counteroperation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counteroperation

MLA

“counteroperation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counteroperation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counteroperation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counteroperation.

Source: counteroperation on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.