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. Larry Johnson:

   Every country is engaged in spying at this event, and they have their intelligence/surveillance teams come in at least a week in advance, often from different ports of entry, so they are harder to trace, they will be doing every type of surveillance you can imagine, from intercepting cell phone traffic and WiFi to bugging hotel rooms, visual surveillance (photography) and in-person reconnaissance. Johnson said the.

2. 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.

3. Jim Green:

   There must be something about humans not believing in the science, all I can say is we have people who don’t believe we landed on the moon. With the lunar reconnaissance orbiter, we even have high resolution imaging showing what we left on the moon, where it was and where we went to many of the Apollo sites, which clearly demonstrates we were on the moon. So, we are open and honest of what we do. That is a hallmark of NASA.

4. President Francois Hollande:

   We have proof that attacks have been planned from Syria against several countries, notably France, my responsibility is to ensure that we are informed as much as possible on the threats to our country ... so I have asked the defense minister that from tomorrow reconnaissance flights begin over Syria that will enable us to consider air strikes against Islamic State.

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.