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ratissages

ratissages is the plural of ratissage.

Meaning of ratissage

Noun

ratissage (plural ratissages)

  1. A raid (especially violent) carried out by the police or military, originally and chiefly carried out by the French in Algeria. and, prior to that, by the Milice (Vichy Government counter-terror police) in 1943-44.
    • The army […] subjected suspect Muslim villages to systematic ratissage – literally a ‘raking-over’, a time-honoured word for ‘pacifying’ operations.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 26
  2. A monetary device whereby national reserves are temporarily given up to a central bank.

Questions about ratissages

What is ratissages the plural of?
Ratissages is the plural of ratissage.

Words near ratissages in the dictionary

  1. rations
  2. ratios
  3. ratis
  4. Ratisbon
  5. ratissage
  6. ratissages
  7. ratitate
  8. ratite
  9. ratites
  10. ratiuncule
  11. ratiuncules

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