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How to pronounce reconnaissance in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms reconnaissance mission
Type of intelligence, intelligence activity, intelligence operation
Has types recce, recco, reccy, reconnaissance by fire, reconnaissance in force, reconnoitering, reconnoitring, scouting, air reconnaissance, shufti, electronic reconnaissance, exploratory survey
Derivation reconnoiter, reconnoitre


an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission.

Examples of reconnaissance

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A reconnaissance scout and infantryman, Payne was in the initial push into Iraq.
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The team's reconnaissance trip was supported by the National Science Foundation.
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After a sleepless night, the Alpha platoons moved out on reconnaissance patrols.
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Recalde sent a reconnaissance party ashore, but all eight members were captured.
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They'll also be instructed in providing first aid and conducting reconnaissance.
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Then, in the 1940s, reconnaissance aircraft began hunting such storms regularly.
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A reconnaissance trip is planned for this weekend to make sure this is possible.
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Built in 1964 as Atlas-Agena D pad for launch of KH-7 reconnaissance satellites.
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Poor reconnaissance, planning and communication all characterized the operation.
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More examples
  • The act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy); "an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission"
  • Reconnaissance is a mission to obtain information by visual observation or other detection methods, about the activities and resources of an enemy or potential enemy, or about the meteorologic, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area.
  • Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars. ...
  • The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information
  • Reconnaissance is the phase of an attack where an attackers finds new systems, maps out networks, and probes for specific, exploitable vulnerabilities.
  • In aviation, to fly over and look closely at an area below to gather information about it.
  • A method of gathering data, often associated with surface surveys, in which archaeological remains are systematically identified and plotted on a map.
  • Investigation or exploration or something
  • Systematic attempts to locate, identify, and record the distribution of archaeological sites on the ground and with respect to the natural geographic and environmental background.