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promilitary

promilitary adjective: favoring or supporting the military.

Adjective

promilitary (comparative more promilitary, superlative most promilitary)

  1. Favoring or supporting the military
    • During those years you had programs like The Big Red One on WAPI in Birmingham, Alabama, which was avidly promilitary, being aired at the same time as The Anderson Platoon on CBS, which showed the 'grunt's-eye view,' an unfavorable picture of the war.1988 February 26, Tom Panelas, “Video news: looking closer at the TV war”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021

Forms of promilitary

comparativemore promilitary
superlativemost promilitary

Origin of promilitary

From pro- + military.

Questions about promilitary

What does promilitary mean?
Promilitary means favoring or supporting the military.
What part of speech is promilitary?
Promilitary is an adjective.

Words near promilitary in the dictionary

  1. promil
  2. Promila
  3. promilitarism
  4. promilitarist
  5. promilitarists
  6. promilitary
  7. promin
  8. promine
  9. prominence
  10. prominences
  11. prominencies

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