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SVO

SVO is the initialism of subject–verb–object [word order].

SVO is the initialism of special military operation.

Meaning of special military operation

Noun

special military operation (plural special military operations)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic, neologism) A military campaign resembling a war; especially the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    • By undermining the effectiveness of the sanctions regime being imposed on Russia, China clearly hopes to weaken the compliance mechanism that keeps that order working and under American control. Beijing probably also has an eye on blunting the effectiveness of this particular mechanism so that it...2022 March 25, Andrew Latham, “Three reasons why the China-Russia alliance is deepening”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2022
    Synonyms:
    SMO, SVO

Synonyms of SVO

Forms of SVO

pluralSVOs

Origin of SVO

Initialism.

An English transliteration from the Russian СВО (SVO), specifically referring to the invasion of Ukraine.

Questions about SVO

What is SVO the initialism of?
SVO is the initialism of subject–verb–object [word order].

Words near SVO in the dictionary

  1. SVM
  2. SVMP
  3. SVMPs
  4. SVMs
  5. SVN
  6. SVO
  7. Svoboda
  8. Svobodas
  9. SVOD
  10. SVoIP
  11. SVOs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SVO (page history and authors); special military operation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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