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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anti-personnel
adjective
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▪ Although an immediate ban on all anti-personnel mines was endorsed by 15 retired generals, including Gen.
▪ He also sought exceptions for anti-personnel mines used in wartime, and for those protecting anti-tank mines.
▪ More than 100 million anti-personnel mines are buried in 70 countries, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
▪ More than 90 countries drafted a treaty in September that would ban export and use of anti-personnel mines.
▪ So far, the United States has said it can not agree to outlaw all types of anti-personnel mines.
Wiktionary
anti-personnel

a. Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular. alt. Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular.

Usage examples of "anti-personnel".

He was a combat engineer and demolition expert who trained the Bru Montagnards in the use of anti-personnel mines, trip flares, Claymore mines, M-79 grenade launchers, hand grenades, and other weapons.

The idea of a Bouncing Betty anti-personnel mine exploding at head height was enough to dispel any nonchalance in the troops.

The only incident so far had a family group killing themselves by defeating a triple concertina wire fence, and detouring around a warning sign, and then triggering an anti-personnel mine when one of the children kicked it .

When Phil Fabrizio ambles closer to my treads, head tipped back in a slack-jawed perusal of my prow, I track the movement with anti-personnel chain guns and remind him—sharply—to halt.

It was a small army anti-personnel mine with a trinitrotoluol charge, the kind nicknamed 'Souvenir for.

It was a small army anti-personnel mine with a trinitrotoluol charge, the kind nicknamed "Souvenir for.