countermeasure
Noun
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Noun
countermeasure (plural countermeasures)
- Any action taken to counteract or correct another.
- We fear that this will be the beginning of a negative development of measures and countermeasures, at the end of which there will be no winner CNN-money, Why President Trump's obsession with German cars is misplaced, Jackie Wattles and Charles Riley, May 31, 2018
- (military, mostly, in the plural) Any of the devices and techniques used to impair the operational effectiveness of an enemy.
- French: contre-mesure
- German: Gegenmaßnahme
- Portuguese: contramedida
- Russian: контрме́ра
- Spanish: contramedida
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