signature strike

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A military attack which is based on detecting suspicious activity rather than confirmed intelligence of terrorism.
    — This group of civilians was marked as displaying suspicious behavior and consequently became the victime of a signature strike that killed twenty-three men and wounded twelve others, including a woman and three children.

词形变化

signature strikes plural

词源

From the justification for such strikes being suspicious patterns of behavior thought to be "signatures" of terrorists.
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