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Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that is the unintended result of military operations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, uncountable, usually
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Harm to innocent people that results from policy decisions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Unintended victims of an attack targeted at someone or something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
(euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fatal accident, casualty
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
kollaterale skade
— collateral damage
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Arabic:
أَضْرَار جَانِبِيَّة
(ʔaḍrār jānibiyya)
— collateral damage
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Bulgarian:
страни́чна щета́
(straníčna štetá)
— collateral damage
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Chinese Mandarin:
附帶損害 /附带损害
(fùdài sǔnhài)
— collateral damage
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Danish:
følgeskadevirkning
— collateral damage
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Danish:
følgeskade
— collateral damage
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Dutch:
nevenschade
— collateral damage
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Dutch:
randschade
— collateral damage
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Finnish:
sivuvahinko
— collateral damage
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Finnish:
oheisvahinko
— collateral damage
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French:
dommage collatéral
— collateral damage
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French:
dégât collatéral
— collateral damage
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German:
Kollateralschaden
— collateral damage
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German:
Kollateralschäden
— collateral damage
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German:
Begleitschaden
— collateral damage
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German:
nebensächlicher Schaden
— collateral damage
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German:
Randschaden
— collateral damage
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Greek:
παράπλευρη απώλεια
(paráplevri apóleia)
— collateral damage
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Hebrew:
נזק נלווה
— collateral damage
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Hungarian:
járulékos károkozás
— collateral damage
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Hungarian:
járulékos kár
— collateral damage
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Hungarian:
járulékos veszteség
— collateral damage
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Hungarian:
civil/polgári áldozatok/veszteségek
— collateral damage
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Japanese:
巻き添え被害
(makizoe higai)
— collateral damage
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Korean:
부수적 피해
(busujeok pihae)
— collateral damage
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Macedonian:
колатерална штета
(kolateralna šteta)
— collateral damage
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Norwegian Bokmål:
utilsiktet tap
— collateral damage
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Norwegian Bokmål:
utilsikta tap
— collateral damage
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
utilsikta tap
— collateral damage
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Polish:
straty cywilne
— collateral damage
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Portuguese:
dano colateral
— collateral damage
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Russian:
сопу́тствующий уще́рб
(sopútstvujuščij uščérb)
— collateral damage
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Russian:
сопу́тствующая поте́ря
(sopútstvujuščaja potérja)
— collateral damage
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Spanish:
daño colateral
— collateral damage
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Swedish:
sidoskada
— collateral damage
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Ukrainian:
побі́чний зби́ток
(pobíčnyj zbýtok)
— collateral damage
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Ukrainian:
побі́чна втра́та
(pobíčna vtráta)
— collateral damage
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Welsh:
difrod ystlysol
— collateral damage
