flankering (0 synonym found)

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Definition of flankering:

(n) : (rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
(n) : (American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
(n) : (business, marketing) A usually lower-end brand or product introduced in order to target competitors and protect a company's main market share.
(n) : (military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
(n) : (archaeology) One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
(v) : (obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.

Definition of flankering:

(n) : (rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
(n) : (American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
(n) : (business, marketing) A usually lower-end brand or product introduced in order to target competitors and protect a company's main market share.
(n) : (military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
(n) : (archaeology) One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
(v) : (obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.

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