Antonyms for collateral damagecol·lat·er·al dam·age

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Princeton's WordNet

1. collateral damagenoun

   (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations

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1. collateral benefit

   while the term and meaning of collateral damage is widespread there are actions that also have widespread and difficult to measure collateral benefits.

   the collateral benefit of local, organic food is likely to be lower cancer and obesity rates.

   Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014  

2. unintentional benefit

   Submitted by anonymous on February 16, 2020  

How to use collateral damage in a sentence?

1. Norm Ornstein:

   This is going to undermine confidence in the FBI and other intelligence agencies, there is collateral damage from these attacks that isn't even being taken into account.

2. William Bottke:

   In an explosion, there is often collateral damage, where nearby buildings and innocent bystanders are affected, investigators can learn about the explosive device and the explosion itself by studying what happened to people, infrastructure, and whether trace amounts of the explosive device can be found among the blast damage. Here, the 'innocent bystanders' were the main-belt asteroids.

3. Kevin McCarthy:

   The collateral damage from Biden’s border crisis extends beyond the inhumane and crowded conditions at migrant facilities, the gross mismanagement of the crisis has also put Americans ’ safety in danger, as we witnessed recently by the two suspected terrorists who were recently apprehended, and it poses health risks to our own citizens. Just in the first quarter of 2021, the amount of fentanyl seized at the border increased by an alarming rate of 233 % from the same time period last year.

4. Jacob Appelbaum:

   There’s a lot of people who have conflicted interest where they’re supposed to protect Americans, but at the same time, they think they can do that by violating people’s rights constantly and recording data, especially with mass surveillance, i find this stuff to be so frustrating because while they can be sources of legitimate intelligence, there can be lots of collateral damage.

5. Mark Corallo:

   I understand David Vitter's desire to score political points against Bill Clinton. I was in the Bill Clinton opposition business long before anyone had heard of David Vitter. And by all means it should be open season on Bill Clinton, but we should be careful to base our political attacks on facts, not innuendo dressed up as a Congressional inquiry. We shouldn't treat everyone who ever associated with the Clinton's as collateral damage.

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