collateral damage

noun

/kəˌlætərəl ˈdæmɪdʒ/

[uncountable]

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deaths of or injury to civilians (= people not in the armed forces) or damage to buildings that are not connected to the military during a war. People say ‘collateral damage’ to avoid saying ‘innocent people being killed’.
- Collateral damage caused by the drone attacks was high.
- They were rightly concerned about civilian collateral damage.
- (figurative) As forests are cleared for logging, woodland caribou become collateral damage (= the animals die even though they are not deliberately killed).

单词	collateral damage
释义	collateral damage noun /kəˌlætərəl ˈdæmɪdʒ/ /kəˌlætərəl ˈdæmɪdʒ/ [uncountable] jump to other results deaths of or injury to civilians (= people not in the armed forces) or damage to buildings that are not connected to the military during a war. People say ‘collateral damage’ to avoid saying ‘innocent people being killed’. Collateral damage caused by the drone attacks was high. They were rightly concerned about civilian collateral damage. (figurative) As forests are cleared for logging, woodland caribou become collateral damage (= the animals die even though they are not deliberately killed).
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