Crossword clues for interdiction
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interdiction \In`ter*dic"tion\, n. [L. interdictio: cf. F. interdiction.] The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict.
The truest issue of thy throne
By his own interdiction stands accurst.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., enterdiccioun, from Latin interdictionem (nominative interdictio) "prohibition, interdiction," noun of action from past participle stem of interdicere (see interdict).
Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of interdicting or something interdicted 2 the destruction of an enemy's military potential before it can be used
WordNet
n. authoritative prohibition
a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity [syn: interdict]
Wikipedia
Interdiction is a military term for the act of delaying, disrupting, or destroying enemy forces or supplies en route to the battle area. A distinction is often made between strategic and tactical interdiction. The former refers to operations whose effects are broad and long-term; tactical operations are designed to affect events rapidly and in a localized area.
The term interdiction is also used in criminology and law enforcement, such as in the U.S. War on Drugs and in immigration.
The term interdiction is also used by the NSA when an electronics shipment is secretly intercepted by an intelligence service (domestic or foreign) for the purpose of implanting bugs before they reach their destination. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA's TAO group is able to divert shipping deliveries to its own "secret workshops" in a method called interdiction, where agents load malware onto the electronics or install malicious hardware that can give US intelligence agencies remote access. The report also indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories, such as a computer monitor or keyboard cables with hidden wireless transmitters bugs built-in for eavesdropping on video and keylogging.
Usage examples of "interdiction".
As I had foreseen, that interdiction left me to enjoy as I pleased all the time that I would have been called upon to devote to their devout credulity, and besides, I was naturally afraid lest De la Haye, such as I truly believed him to be, would never lend himself to that trifling nonsense, and would, for the sake of deserving greater favour at their hands, endeavour to undeceive them and to take my place in their confidence.
The plane was intended for surveillance and interdiction, usually against endos, so its firepower was not great.
The same politicians now bellowing in outrage about the interdiction of Cuban rafters made not a peep of protest when Clinton took the same step to halt the influx of boat people from Haiti.
Iraq during this period, gravely weakening our ability to mount military operations elsewhere in the world--especially when coupled with other ongoing missions such as Bosnia, the Sinai peninsula, drug interdiction, and coun-terterrorism.
Here, the next Interdiction, when it comes, will be not with the clamorous stench of Sea-Battle, but quieter than wind, final as Stone.
The jenny thrashed violently as we came up into the wind, our shrouds brushed the caiques counter as we shot round her stern, and I cursed Ann's interdiction of the engine as I braced myself for the crash when we hit the wharf.
Those who watch them are ignorant fools, and those who pay the watchers for such a service are even more stupid, because prohibition must excite the wish to break through such a tyrannical law, to set at nought an interdiction so contrary to nature.
A Report remarking that the Abbe Carlo Grimani believed himself exempt, in his position as a priest, from the interdiction laid on patricians against frequenting foreign ministers and their suites.
The Count of Messina, after a protracted interdiction of his trade by sea and several long-drawn-out and very destructive cannonadings of his harbor defenses by the allied fleets, had raised his vassals and thrown out the Spanish-Moorish officials and garrison, then declared Messina open to the forces of Pope Sicola and His Holiness's supporters.
These Alfas and Victors appear to be racing for our coast, almost certainly with the intention of establishing an interdiction force — effectively a blockade of our Atlantic coast.
The groups which spring up most naturally, those which arise through a community of interests, are all dispersed, and the broadest, most express, and most positive interdictions are promulgated against their revival under any pretext whatever.
Ky remembered one of the lectures in Strategic Analysis, in which a discussion of the consequences of successful interdiction of intersystem communication had delved into the reasons someone might do it and the consequences thereof, economic, political, and military.
He tried flexing a magnetohydrodynamic limb, knowing it was useless, waiting for the spiky interdiction icon to appear.
He either seizes control of the interdiction generator, or else simply prevents the masterminds from getting to it and shutting it off.
I could see them peel off from the first squad, swarm into the boat as the interdiction circle tightened.