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counter-terrorist

counter-terrorist is the alternative spelling of counterterrorist.

Meaning of counterterrorist

Adjective

counterterrorist (not comparable)

  1. Intended to combat terrorism
    • Henry Kissinger was there; so was Robert Komer, the CIA officer who ran the counterterrorist "pacification" program in 1967 and '68[…].1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader

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Forms of counter-terrorist

pluralcounter-terrorists

Questions about counter-terrorist

What is counter-terrorist the alternative spelling of?
Counter-terrorist is the alternative spelling of counterterrorist.

Words near counter-terrorist in the dictionary

  1. counter-tactic
  2. counter-tactics
  3. counter-tenor
  4. counter-tenors
  5. counter-terrorism
  6. counter-terrorist
  7. counter-terrorists
  8. counter-terrorize
  9. counter-terrorized
  10. counter-terrorizes
  11. counter-terrorizing

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