strategic bomber

collocation in English

meaningsofstrategicandbomber

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strategic
adjective
uk
/strəˈtiː.dʒɪk/us
/strəˈtiː.dʒɪk/
helping to achieve a plan, for example in business ...
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bomber
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɒm.ər/us
/ˈbɑː.mɚ/
a person who ...
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(Definition ofstrategicandbomberfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is also no truth at all in the story that we do not intend to maintain ourstrategicbomberforce under national control.
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We have been told that astrategicbomberforce is the best defence.
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Thestrategicbombermay well have been displaced within 20 years.
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Even a minimumstrategicbomberforce would be enormously expensive, and therefore it is a decision which we must take with reluctance.
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This branch would have taken over the rôle of thestrategicbomberforce.
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I therefore think that the long-rangestrategicbombermay live a life as long as many of us.
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What he said about its capability related to the fact that it is integrated completely and absolutely with thestrategicbomberforce.
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But my object is to assess the results of the vast effort which this country devoted to thestrategicbomberoffensive.
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We are—quite rightly— creating astrategicbomberforce in the profound hope that we shall never have to use it.
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It was there discovered that it was not very easy to deter local aggression bystrategicbomberthreats because one's bluff is called.
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We must also have an enormousstrategicbomberforce, as a deterrent to total war.
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They have learnt even more about this process of deterrents and thestrategicbomberforces than many of us.
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This year it has turned up as a defence ofstrategicbomberairfields.
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I was particularly interested in his analysis of the achievements of thestrategicbomberoffensive.
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In any case, they would present a much more difficult target thanstrategicbomberbases have been in the past and will remain.
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This is the first answer to our requirement for astrategicbombercapable of operating at great heights and speed in all weather conditions.
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That amount of money would not be enough to buy a single modernstrategicbomber.
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He is responsible for all the big decisions—how many divisions there shall be, the size of thestrategicbomberforce, how many capital ships we shall build, etc.
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It meant, first of all, the heavy,strategicbomber, the object of which was to destroy the war potential of the enemy, such as munitions, chemical factories, oil distilleries, etc.
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He used the words that we should concentrate on astrategicbomberforce but said that he did not believe we should need to use it.
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