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reconnoitre
 re‧con‧noi‧tre British English, reconnoiter American English /ˌrekəˈnɔɪtə $ ˌriːkəˈnɔɪtər/ verb [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1700-1800; Origin : Early French reconnoître, from Old French reconoistre; ⇨ recognize]
1. to try to find out the position and size of your enemy’s army, for example by flying planes over land where their soldiers are
2. to find out information about an area:
▪ All morning, the world’s top cyclists have been reconnoitring the course.
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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the outriders can only move so fast, their ability to reconnoitre ahead is limited.
▪ He sent two men to reconnoitre the approaching dark.
▪ Lampard sent Dunn and Trooper Peck in a jeep to reconnoitre.
▪ Lampard would not raid without reconnoitring the target first.
▪ M, the title's hunter, has rented a room at an isolated house from which to reconnoitre the wilderness beyond.
▪ One night in August 1969, therefore, the two men drove to Hallington to reconnoitre the line.
▪ One of the duke's groundsmen advised me to reconnoitre a nearby converted abbey which has recently been turned into a hotel.
▪ This time, however, she was so late that she could not reconnoitre first.
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