Synonyms for reconnaissance
rɪˈkɒn ə səns, -zənsre·con·nais·sance

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1. reconnaissance, reconnaissance missionnoun

   the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)

   "an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission"

   Synonyms:
   reconnaissance mission

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1. reconnaissancenoun

   Synonyms:
   preliminary survey, rough survey

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1. List of paraphrases for "reconnaissance":

   recognition, reconnaisance, appreciation, poll, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, surveillance, detection, gratitude, exploratory, reconnoitre, survey, recce, recon, detect

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1. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop:

   The aerial reconnaissance flights confirmed significant damage in the southern islands, particularly Tanna island, where it appears that more than 80 percent of houses and buildings have been partially or completely destroyed.

2. Vago Muradian:

   Iran is looming very, very large after the resumption of its nuclear activities, the Saudi Aramco attack and earlier this summer the shootdown of the (U.S.) RQ-4 reconnaissance drone, all of these elements are coming together to raise tensions and then you have the internal unrest in Iran which I think exacerbates the situation, because you don't know how the leadership is going to react in a moment like that.

3. John McCain:

   And I can understand, when it was a very small operation, why it would be done by the intelligence agencies, such as U-2s and other reconnaissance aircraft, for many years. Now it has reached the point where it's an integral part of the conflict.

4. Congressman Cooper:

   National Reconnaissance Office has actually done a pretty amazing job, they're not as well-known as some other agencies. ... But I had a recent side-by-side briefing with the National Reconnaissance Office and Space Force. My conclusion after that briefing was : thank God for National Reconnaissance Office. I anxiously await the day that I can say the same about Space Force.

5. Chad Davis:

   We are the nation's eyes and ears in space, on any given day, National Reconnaissance Office's something like 500,000 people that access intelligence derived from the information gathered from NRO systems.