How to pronounce “collateral damage”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (military, euphemistic) Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that is the unintended result of military operations.
• Harm to innocent people that results from policy decisions.
• Unintended victims of an attack targeted at someone or something else.

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Similar Sounds

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