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psyops

/ˈsaɪ.ɒps/

psyops noun: techniques used by military and police forces to influence the beliefs, emotions and behavior of citizens. Also the plural of psyop.

Noun

psyops pl (normally plural, singular psyop)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Techniques used by military and police forces to influence the beliefs, emotions and behavior of citizens.
    • ‘Russia Today’, he said, his finger marking each syllable with a thud on the table in front of us, ‘is psy-ops’—short for psychological operations. […] ‘It is run directly from the Kremlin. It's following Kremlin's narratives. It's a psy-ops operation. And it's black psy-ops.’2018, Carl Miller, quoting Mark Laity, chapter 6, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN

Also used as

psyops is also the plural of psyop.

psyops is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of psyop.

Forms of psyops

singularpsyop
alternative formpsy-ops

Origin of psyops

Syllabic abbreviation of psychological operations.

Questions about psyops

What does psyops mean?
Psyops means techniques used by military and police forces to influence the beliefs, emotions and behavior of citizens.
What part of speech is psyops?
Psyops is a noun.
How do you pronounce psyops?
Psyops is pronounced /ˈsaɪ.ɒps/.

Words near psyops in the dictionary

  1. psylliums
  2. psyop
  3. psyopped
  4. psyoppery
  5. psyopping
  6. psyops
  7. Psyspam
  8. psytrance
  9. psywar
  10. psywars
  11. Pszczyna

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