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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anti-tank
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
missile
▪ More like a bulletproof tank, some one else said; it would take an anti-tank missile to get at him.
▪ All they have to protect themselves are Milan anti-tank missiles and light arms.
▪ The Maniax had the launcher readied, and put an anti-tank missile into his stomach.
▪ Who's got the anti-tank missiles?
▪ And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile, as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile.
▪ Similarly, Fire Support Company had to set up their display of mortars, anti-tank missiles and Scimitar tracked recce vehicles.
weapon
▪ The Army is taking delivery of LAW-80, a short range anti-tank weapon costing £400m.
▪ Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers.
▪ In the meantime, the authorities had added light anti-tank weapons and recoilless rifles to the arsenal of the metropolitan police force.
▪ Reductions would affect especially artillery and anti-tank weapons, while procurement of naval vessels would be slowed.
▪ If one's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All they have to protect themselves are Milan anti-tank missiles and light arms.
▪ Bathore is armed to the teeth, from pistols to anti-tank guns looted from the government.
▪ He also sought exceptions for anti-personnel mines used in wartime, and for those protecting anti-tank mines.
▪ I couldn't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun.
▪ In the meantime, the authorities had added light anti-tank weapons and recoilless rifles to the arsenal of the metropolitan police force.
▪ Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers.
▪ More like a bulletproof tank, some one else said; it would take an anti-tank missile to get at him.
▪ The Army is taking delivery of LAW-80, a short range anti-tank weapon costing £400m.
Wiktionary
anti-tank

a. (alternative spelling of antitank English)

Usage examples of "anti-tank".

Our sponsors in the Defense Department could hardly tell a desperate major general whose division was headed for Recife without anti-tank guns that rail space was needed for something nebulous but infinitely more important.

What are the estimated battle strengths of all British divisions in Italy and in North Africa in men and guns, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft?

It was enough that right in front of him -perhaps ten miles across on this clear day, crammed on this flat tableland of central Russia, from the Oboyan road west past the Pena River was the greatest concentration of rifles, tanks, anti-tank guns, artillery, mines, barbed wire, blockhouses, and obstacles assembled in the entire war.

The Stukas had learned to come at Red tanks from behind, trying to score a hit with their two 37 mm anti-tank guns on the engine compartment, which sometimes blew up and took the tank and crew with it.

He would let the dug-in grenadiers absorb the first blows of the T-34S, have them slow the Soviet charge with anti-tank fire, perhaps some of the more intrepid soldiers might hop out of their foxholes and board a few Red tanks with magnetic mines and grenades.

The panzer grenadiers greeted the Red tanks with anti-tank fire that knocked out a quarter of the first echelon in the initial minute of the charge.

Through his glasses Anderson saw the group, well out of range of his own anti-tank bazookas, firing methodically into the American foxholes.

The cratering charge on the southern approach to the bridge is in place and ready, but the anti-tank ditch extended to the riverbank won't be finished for at least another half hour.

Most of these vehicles were destroyed by cannon fire from the Typre-63 tanks and anti-tank munitions from the BMP-2 and BTR-80 APC’.

The 1st mechanized division has only a few of the anti-tank missiles since they will be depending on their mounted chain guns and light cannons taking the GIR vehicles from the rear.

Behind Kozak, Specialist Pee Paden came running, carrying the AT-4 light anti-tank rockets Wolf had ordered him to grab.

It had been a 10 cm bolt from a gun like those on the drones in the courtyard, anti-tank weapons really and the only medicine that could dependably put paid to the monsters which disputed the Settlement.