reconnaissance
noun
the act of reconnoitering.
reconnaissances
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pluralof reconnaissance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There will be reconnaissances to Trent Bridge to have a look at Australia's opener, Ed Cowan, who has signed for Nottinghamshire for the early part of the season.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013
Since then there have been three major reconnaissances of nerves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell in the courtyard outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
As an intelligence officer, Mowat is particularly vulnerable when he delivers messages and undertakes reconnaissances.
From Time Magazine Archive
For that kind of work, as for all reconnaissances, the aviators like low-lying clouds.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Francis Trevelyan Miller
