1. counter-offensive - Noun
2. counter-offensive - Adjective
counter-offensive (plural counter-offensives)
An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.
counter-offensive (comparative more counter-offensive, superlative most counter-offensive)
Being or relating to an attack in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.
counter offensive
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. Jacques Delors
The enemy is quite successful in mobilizing and launching a counter-offensive. Igor Girkin
And if he decides to go for broke with an all-out counter-offensive, he will have no shortage of attack dogs. Source: Internet
By being forced into a counter-offensive against such formidable positions, the French Army would "bleed itself white". Source: Internet
'Operation Ceniza' In response to the guerilla offensive in early 1981, the Guatemalan Army began mobilizing for a large-scale rural counter-offensive. Source: Internet
Falkenhayn had already given up the plan for a counter-offensive near Arras, to reinforce the Russian front and the 2nd Army, with eighteen divisions moved from the reserve and the 6th Army front. Source: Internet