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collateral damage
collateral damageinjury inflicted on something other than the intended target, such as civilian casualties of a military operationcollateral damagen. Unintended damage, injuries, or deaths caused by an action, especially unintended civilian casualties caused by a military operation.collateral damage n (Military) military unintentional damage to civil property and civilian casualties, caused by military operations collateral damageUnintentional or incidental injury or damage to persons or objects that would not be lawful military targets in the circumstances ruling at the time. Such damage is not unlawful so long as it is not excessive in light of the overall military advantage anticipated from the attack.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | collateral damage - (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operationseuphemism - an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harshfatal accident, casualty - an accident that causes someone to diearmed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
collateral damage
Surgery Any unavoidable co-morbidity associated with surgery, in particular of the brain—e.g., cognitive impairment as collateral damage after regional surgery to control temporal lobe epilepsy
Vox populi A popular term for any co-morbidity associated with a therapy—e.g., chemotherapy-induced collateral damage to the bone marrow and gastrointestinal tract as a side effect of destroying tumour cells. The term was borrowed from the military and popularised during the Gulf War in reference to unintentional, but inevitable loss of life and destruction of civilian property and non-military facilities, when these are adjacent to military targetscollateral damage Surgery A popular term for any undesired but unavoidable co-morbidity associated with a therapy–eg, chemotherapy-induced CD to the BM and GI tract as a side effect of destroying tumor cellsEncyclopediaSeec/dcollateral damage
Words related to collateral damagenoun (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operationsRelated Words- euphemism
- fatal accident
- casualty
- armed forces
- armed services
- military
- military machine
- war machine
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