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preemptive strikes

preemptive strikes is the plural of preemptive strike.

Meaning of preemptive strike

Noun

preemptive strike (plural preemptive strikes)

  1. An attack launched as a defensive measure.
    • In every war the salarians have fought, they struck first and without warning. For the salarians, to know an enemy plans to attack and to let it happen is folly. To announce their own plans to attack is insanity. They find the human moral concepts of "do not fire until fired upon" and "declare a...2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Military Doctrine Codex entry

Questions about preemptive strikes

What is preemptive strikes the plural of?
Preemptive strikes is the plural of preemptive strike.

Words near preemptive strikes in the dictionary

  1. preemptive
  2. preemptive right
  3. preemptive rights
  4. preemptive self-defence
  5. preemptive strike
  6. preemptive strikes
  7. preemptively
  8. preemptor
  9. preemptorally
  10. preemptorily
  11. preemptors

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