Recce - What does it mean?
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(British, Canada, military slang) Reconnaissance.
* 1953: J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography
* 2006: Vincent Tuckwood, Karaoke Criminals
* 2006: Steve Farndon, Escape Inc.
(British, Canada, military slang) Relating to reconnaissance.
* 1946: United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
* 2006: Tony Holmes, US Marine Corps And RAAF Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom
* 2006: Hew Strachan, Big Wars And Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the 20th Century
(British, Canada, military slang) Reconnoitre.
* 1961: John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel
* 2006: James Scott, The Sweaties
recce
English
Noun
(en noun)- Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce , she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.
- As he climbed into the car, his recce of the space behind the seats was still a little too obvious despite best efforts at subtlety.
- I'm afraid you two will have to go on a bit of a recce sometime soon.
Adjective
(-)- There appears a captured photograph showing cruiser or battleship recovery of an old Jap float recce plane.
- These record imagery from all three recce sensors - IR, EO and SAR.
- Reconnaissance (recce ) patrols were the most effective solution that the British and Indian Army designed to identify Japanese units and their intentions, as these could move through the jungle without alerting the enemy to their presence.
Verb
- I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.
- Take him down there with Entry Two and recce first. If he can't confirm it, we pull out.