亚洲网紅露点

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antipersonnel

[ an-tee-pur-suh-nel, an-tahy- ]

adjective

Military.
  1. used against enemy personnel rather than against mechanized vehicles, mat茅riel, etc.:

    antipersonnel bombs.



antipersonnel

/ 藢忙苍迟瑟藢辫蓽藧蝉蓹藞苍蓻濒 /

adjective

  1. (of weapons, etc) designed to cause casualties to personnel rather than to destroy equipment or defences AP
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of antipersonnel1

First recorded in 1935鈥40; anti- + personnel
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Example Sentences

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The prime minister also said he supports Poland withdrawing from the Ottawa convention that bans the use of antipersonnel landmines, and also possibly from the Dublin convention that bans the use of cluster munitions.

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The first approved deliveries of U.S. antipersonnel land mines will help the beleaguered Ukrainian forces retain control of vital strongholds.

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In 2018, suspected members of the Gulf cartel were arrested in the northern Mexican border city of Reynosa with two Claymore M18A1 antipersonnel mines 鈥 a weapon developed for the U.S. military.

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There were antipersonnel mines outside the barbed-wire to keep prisoners in line, while guards kept watch from towers.

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It urged the Ukrainian government to 鈥渁ct on its expressed commitment not to use banned antipersonnel land mines, investigate the military鈥檚 use of these weapons, and hold those responsible to account.鈥

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