recce
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɛ.ki/
recce (plural recces)
- (British, Canada, NZ, military slang) Reconnaissance.
- 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography
- Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce, she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.
- 2006, Steve Farndon, Escape Inc.
- I'm afraid you two will have to go on a bit of a recce sometime soon.
- 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography
recce (not comparable)
- (British, Canada, NZ, military slang) Relating to reconnaissance.
- 1946, United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
- There appears a captured photograph showing cruiser or battleship recovery of an old Jap float recce plane.
- 1946, United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
recce (recces, present participle recceing; past and past participle recced)
- (British, Canada, NZ, military slang) Reconnoitre.
- 1961, John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel
- I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.
- 1961, John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel
- (mainly US) recon
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