"pincer attack" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pincer attacks [plural]
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  1. (military) An attack in which two or more forces attack from multiple sides at once. Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-pincer_attack-en-noun-AYbzwRsE Topics: government, military, politics, war
  2. (military) An attack in which two or more forces attack from multiple sides at once.
    A set of simultaneous attacks against the flanks of an enemy salient in order to cut off and trap the enemy in an encirclement.
    Categories (topical): Military
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (attack from multiple sides): кле́щи (kléšti) [masculine, plural] (Bulgarian), 雙頭夾 /双头夹 (siang-thâu-kiap) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 夾攻 /夹攻 (jiāgōng) (Chinese Mandarin), 夾擊 /夹击 (jiājī) (Chinese Mandarin), sevření do kleští [neuter] (Czech), knibtangsmanøvre [common-gender] (Danish), tangbeweging [feminine] (Dutch), pihtiliike (Finnish), mouvement en tenaille [masculine] (French), gluaiseacht phionsúir [feminine] (Irish), pionsúrghluaiseacht [feminine] (Irish), 挟み撃ち (hasamiuchi) (Japanese), 挟撃 (kyōgeki) (Japanese), 협격 (hyeopgyeok) (alt: 挾擊) (Korean), 협공 (hyeopgong) (alt: 挾攻) (Korean), حملهٔ گازانبری (hamle-ye gâz-anbori) (Persian), manewr okrążający [masculine] (Polish), взять в клещи (vzjatʹ v klešči) (Russian), obuhvatni napad [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), movimiento de pinza [masculine] (Spanish), movimiento de doble embolsamiento [masculine] (Spanish), kniptångsmanöver [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'attack from multiple sides': 50 50

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.