"counter-offensive" meaning in English

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms prefixed with counter-",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "counter",
        "2": "offensive"
      },
      "expansion": "counter- + offensive",
      "name": "ety-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "counter- + offensive",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "counter-offensive",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counter-offensives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "coun‧ter‧offen‧sive",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A counter-offensive is an attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-counter-offensive-en-noun-zA9NrTIb",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "counter-attack"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkaʊnt(ə)rəfɛnsɪv/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "counter-offensive"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Terms prefixed with counter-"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "counter",
        "2": "offensive"
      },
      "expansion": "counter- + offensive",
      "name": "ety-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "counter- + offensive",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "counter-offensive",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counter-offensives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "coun‧ter‧offen‧sive",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A counter-offensive is an attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "counter-attack"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkaʊnt(ə)rəfɛnsɪv/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "counter-offensive"
}