police action
police action
nounDefinition of POLICE ACTION
: a localized military action undertaken without formal declaration of war by regular armed forces against persons held to be violators of international peace and order
First Known Use of POLICE ACTION
1933
Rhymes with POLICE ACTION
abreaction, benefaction, chain reaction, common fraction, complex fraction, counteraction, dark reaction, direct action, interaction, liquefaction, malefaction, overaction, petrifaction, proper fraction, putrefaction, rarefaction, retroaction, satisfaction, simple fraction, single-action, stupefaction, tumefaction
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