"fightback" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fight",
        "3": "back"
      },
      "expansion": "fight + back",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fight + back.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fightbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fightback (plural fightbacks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 December 12, Steve Rose, “Some People's Congress”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4:",
          "text": "The gay movement is in retreat as evidenced in the rise of anti-gay attacks and and ^([sic]) the success of anti-gay legislation. One only needs to read the Gay Community News to realize the severity of the anti-gay offensive. The fightback to this anti-gay offensive has been weak and disoriented. The number of gay organizations, thus the number of organized gays are shrinking, not growing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 25, Bruce Matthews, “Brave Sam Stosur wilts under Elena Dementieva”, in Herald Sun:",
          "text": "Stosur gave hope of a fightback when she smashed through Dementieva's serve in the first game of the second set.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 September 24, Arindam Rej, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "Liverpool resisted a second-half fightback from Wolves to secure a hard-fought victory and end a run of back-to-back Premier League defeats.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:",
          "text": "A second-half fightback to draw with the USA offered a hope that swiftly evaporated following a gut-wrenching 2-0 loss to Iran only four days later. It meant only the seemingly impossible would be enough for Rob Page's men to extend their World Cup dream.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a campaign of resistance; a counterattack"
      ],
      "id": "en-fightback-en-noun-C0uV7FVr",
      "links": [
        [
          "campaign",
          "campaign"
        ],
        [
          "resistance",
          "resistance"
        ],
        [
          "counterattack",
          "counterattack"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fight back"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fightback"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "fight",
        "3": "back"
      },
      "expansion": "fight + back",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fight + back.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fightbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fightback (plural fightbacks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fight back"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 December 12, Steve Rose, “Some People's Congress”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4:",
          "text": "The gay movement is in retreat as evidenced in the rise of anti-gay attacks and and ^([sic]) the success of anti-gay legislation. One only needs to read the Gay Community News to realize the severity of the anti-gay offensive. The fightback to this anti-gay offensive has been weak and disoriented. The number of gay organizations, thus the number of organized gays are shrinking, not growing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 25, Bruce Matthews, “Brave Sam Stosur wilts under Elena Dementieva”, in Herald Sun:",
          "text": "Stosur gave hope of a fightback when she smashed through Dementieva's serve in the first game of the second set.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 September 24, Arindam Rej, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "Liverpool resisted a second-half fightback from Wolves to secure a hard-fought victory and end a run of back-to-back Premier League defeats.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:",
          "text": "A second-half fightback to draw with the USA offered a hope that swiftly evaporated following a gut-wrenching 2-0 loss to Iran only four days later. It meant only the seemingly impossible would be enough for Rob Page's men to extend their World Cup dream.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "a campaign of resistance; a counterattack"
      ],
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        [
          "campaign",
          "campaign"
        ],
        [
          "resistance",
          "resistance"
        ],
        [
          "counterattack",
          "counterattack"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fightback"
}