Usually means: Military and political action against rebels.
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  1. counterinsurgency: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterinsurgency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterinsurgency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterinsurgency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterinsurgency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counterinsurgency, counterinsurgency: Wordnik
  7. counterinsurgency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. counterinsurgency: Wiktionary
  9. counterinsurgency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counterinsurgency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. counterinsurgency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. counterinsurgency: Dictionary.com
  13. Counterinsurgency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. counterinsurgency: Rhymezone
  15. counterinsurgency: FreeDictionary.org
  16. counterinsurgency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. counterinsurgency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. counterinsurgency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. counterinsurgency: Encyclopedia

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

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noun:  Any political or military action taken to defeat insurgency, especially during guerrilla warfare.

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