Usually means: Suppressive fire to enable movement.
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  1. covering fire: Collins English Dictionary
  2. covering fire: Vocabulary.com
  3. covering fire: Wiktionary
  4. covering fire: Dictionary.com
  5. Covering fire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. covering fire: Rhymezone
  7. covering fire: FreeDictionary.org
  8. covering fire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. covering fire: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. covering fire: Encyclopedia

(Note: See covering_fires as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (covering fire)

noun:  (military) supporting fire; small-arms fire directed at an enemy to prevent them firing elsewhere.

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