Countermeasure

Definitions

1. Any action taken to counteract or correct another.
2. Any of the devices and techniques used to impair the operational effectiveness of an enemy.
   in-plural

Equivalents

Examples

“We fear that this will be the beginning of a negative development of measures and countermeasures, at the end⟳ of which there will be no winner”

“Adopting a computerlike countermeasure for a problem enabled by computer algorithms is admittedly an unnatural practice.”

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