counterterrorist

English

counterterrorist (not comparable)

Intended to combat terrorism
- 1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader‎:
  Henry Kissinger was there; so was Robert Komer, the CIA officer who ran the counterterrorist "pacification" program in 1967 and '68 […] .

intended to combat terrorism

Belarusian: контртэрарысты́чны (kontrterarystýčny)
French: contreterroriste (fr) m or f
German: konterterroristisch
Polish: antyterrorystyczny (pl)
Russian: контртеррористи́ческий (ru) (kontrterroristíčeskij)
Ukrainian: контртерористи́чний (kontrterorystýčnyj), антитерористи́чний (antyterorystýčnyj)

counterterrorist (plural counterterrorists)

A person involved in counter-terrorism, who works against terrorists.
- 2007 January 12, Alessandra Stanley, “Bombers Strike, and America Is in Turmoil. It’s Just Another Day for Jack Bauer.”, in New York Times‎:
  Every new season of this Fox thriller is another twist of a kaleidoscope: the same pieces — terrorists; counterterrorists (and, almost inevitably, a mole); an innocent suburban family; and the president, his aides and his family — are tumbled together to form new patterns around the central figure of the special agent Jack Bauer.

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