Noun
pincer attack (plural pincer attacks)
- (military) An attack in which two or more forces attack from multiple sides at once.
- A set of simultaneous attacks against the flanks of an enemy salient in order to cut off and trap the enemy in an encirclement.
Translations
attack from multiple sides
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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- Bulgarian: кле́щи (bg) m pl (kléšti)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 雙頭夾 / 双头夹 (siang-thâu-kiap)
- Mandarin: 夾攻 / 夹攻 (zh) (jiāgōng), 夾擊 / 夹击 (zh) (jiājī)
- Czech: sevření do kleští n
- Danish: knibtangsmanøvre c
- Dutch: tangbeweging (nl) f
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- Finnish: pihtiliike
- French: mouvement en tenaille m
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- Irish: gluaiseacht phionsúir f, pionsúrghluaiseacht f
- Japanese: 挟み撃ち (hasamiuchi), 挟撃 (ja) (kyōgeki)
- Korean: 협격(挾擊) (hyeopgyeok), 협공(挾攻) (hyeopgong)
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- Persian: حملهٔ گازانبری (hamle-ye gâz-anbori)
- Polish: manewr okrążający m
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- Russian: взять в клещи (vzjatʹ v klešči)
- Serbo-Croatian: obuhvatni napad m
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- Spanish: movimiento de pinza m, movimiento de doble embolsamiento m
- Swedish: kniptångsmanöver (sv) c
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