anti-aircraft

See also: antiaircraft

English

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Etymology

anti- +‎ aircraft.

Adjective

anti-aircraft (not comparable)

  1. (military) Intended to attack aircraft.

Usage notes
  • The hyphenated form is more common in the British corpus while the solid form is more common in the American corpus.[1] GPO manual item 6.29. recommends to spell anti- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.[2]

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Noun

anti-aircraft (countable and uncountable, plural anti-aircraft or anti-aircrafts)

  1. (military) Anti-aircraft artillery.
  2. (military) An anti-aircraft artillery organization.
  3. (military) Anti-aircraft fire.

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References
  1. antiaircraft, anti-aircraft at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov

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