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preventive attack
 

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Noun preventive attack has 1 sense
  1. preventive strike, preventive attack - a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces
    --1 is a kind of strike

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Preventive Attack

Noun

1. An offensive military operation carried out to preempt or deter an imminent threat or potential aggression.

Example sentence: The country launched a preventive attack on its neighboring nation to protect its borders.

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