Usually means: Unintended harm during targeted actions.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word collateral damage:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. collateral damage: Merriam-Webster
  2. collateral damage: Collins English Dictionary
  3. collateral damage: Vocabulary.com
  4. collateral-damage, collateral damage: Wordnik
  5. collateral damage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. collateral damage: Wiktionary
  7. collateral damage: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. collateral damage: Dictionary.com
  9. Collateral Damage (Millennium), Collateral Damage (Stargate SG-1), Collateral Damage (The Wire), Collateral Damage (film), Collateral damage (disambiguation), Collateral damage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. collateral damage: Rhymezone
  11. collateral damage: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  12. collateral damage: FreeDictionary.org
  13. collateral damage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. collateral damage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. collateral damage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collateral damage: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Army Technology Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collateral damage: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See collateral_damages as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (collateral damage)

noun:  (military, euphemistic) Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that is the unintended result of military operations.
noun:  Harm to innocent people that results from policy decisions.
noun:  Unintended victims of an attack targeted at someone or something else.

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