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Meaning of "psyops" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PSYOPS

psyops  [ˈsaɪˌɒps] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PSYOPS

noun
adjective
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Psyops is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PSYOPS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

psyops

Psychological warfare

Psychological Warfare, or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations, have been known by many other names or terms, including Psy Ops, Political Warfare, “Hearts and Minds," and propaganda. Various techniques are used, and are aimed at influencing a target audience's value system, belief system, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives, and are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics. Target audiences can be governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. In Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Jacques Ellul discusses psychological warfare as a common peace policy practice between nations as a form of indirect aggression in place of military aggression. This type of propaganda drains the public opinion of an opposing regime by stripping away its power on public opinion. This form of aggression is hard to defend against because no international court of justice is capable of protecting against psychological aggression since it cannot be legally adjudicated.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PSYOPS


Cheops
ˈkiːɒps
chops
tʃɒps
copse
kɒps
cyclops
ˈsaɪklɒps
drops
drɒps
eardrops
ˈɪəˌdrɒps
elops
ˈɛlɒps
hops
hɒps
hydrops
ˈhaɪdrɒps
lithops
ˈlɪθɒps
megalops
ˈmeɡəˌlɒps
Ops
ɒps
Pelops
ˈpiːlɒps
pops
pɒps
props
prɒps
slops
slɒps
stops
stɒps
sundrops
ˈsʌnˌdrɒps
tops
tɒps
triceratops
traɪˈsɛrəˌtɒps

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PSYOPS

psychotherapeutic
psychotherapeutically
psychotherapeutics
psychotherapist
psychotherapy
psychotic
psychotically
psychoticism
psychotomimetic
psychotoxic
psychotropic
psychrometer
psychrometric
psychrometrical
psychrometry
psychrophilic
psylla
psyllid
psyllium
psywar

WORDS THAT END LIKE PSYOPS

assault troops
combat troops
eye drops
fetal hydrops
flops
ground troops
high tops
mutton chops
muttonchops
nose drops
oops
paratroops
proclaim from the housetops
pull out all the stops
root crops
shock troops
shout from the rooftops
troops
whoops
woops

Synonyms and antonyms of psyops in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «psyops» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PSYOPS

Find out the translation of psyops to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of psyops from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «psyops» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

心理战
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

operaciones psicológicas
570 millions of speakers

English

psyops
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

psyops
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العمليات النفسية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ПсО
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

operações psicológicas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

psyops
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

psyops
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Psyops
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

psyops
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

psyops
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

psyops
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Psyops
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

psyops
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

psyops
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Psyops
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Psikolojik operasyonları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

PSYOPS
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

PSYOPS
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ПСО
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

PsyOps
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Οι PSYOPS
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afdeling PSYOPS
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

psyops
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

PSYOPS
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PSYOPS»

The term «psyops» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.247 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PSYOPS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about psyops

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PSYOPS»

Discover the use of psyops in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to psyops and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Psychological Operations and Political Warfare in Long-term ...
Consequently, an insufficient base of psyops-trained officers existed to call upon when the 6th psyops battalion was activated in Vietnam in 1965. By 1967 the Army's psyops forces in Vietnam had been expanded to a group (the 4th) with four ...
János Radványi, 1990
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Media and Conflict Reporting in Asia
With a huge deployment of army, paramilitary and police forces fighting a host of separatist rebel armies, psyops has become a regular feature of journalism in conflict-ridden zones like India's Kashmir and northeastern states. The army and  ...
Shyam Tekwani, 2008
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Peace Through Peace Media?: The Media Activities of the ...
PSYOPS activities must be integrated and coordinated with the overall concept of operations to ensure that it supports the Commander's mission [...]. Furthermore, it must be consistent with political and military aims.” (NATO 2005: 4 ) Flowing ...
Julia Egleder, 2013
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Ideas as Weapons: Influence and Perception in Modern Warfare
Unfortunately, in the current sociopolitical environment, psYops has devolved into a pejorative term both inside and outside our military. This is evident in the careful avoidance of its use by senior military and defense officials when publicly  ...
G. J. David, T. R. McKeldin, 2009
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The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, ...
South Vietnam), Laos, and Cambodia and for providing PSYOPS support to South Vietnamese programs. MACV commander General William Westmoreland and his successor General Creighton Abrams remained strong supporters of ...
Spencer C. Tucker, 2011
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Winning Wars Before They Emerge: From Kinetic Warfare to ...
Content; and Nature of Key Irg'ormation Aetiiitie; According to NATO, PsyOps, as the most traditional way of nonlethal psychological influencing, is about “ influence[ing] the perceptions, attitudes and behaviour of selected individual or groups” ...
Torsti Sirén, Torsti Sir N., 2013
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Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media ...
In so far as PSYOPS was concerned, it needed considerable attention. When US forces invaded Grenada in October 1993 in Operation Urgent Fury, PSYOPS was initially improvised, but once fighting got underway, loudspeaker teams from ...
Philip Taylor, 2002
8
Enduring the Freedom
—Ralph Peters, Beyond Terror Psychological Operations (PSYOPS): a nasty term to those civil libertarians who shudder at the Orwellian implications of mass thought manipulation. PSYOPS: even the acronym sounds sinister, like some ...
Sean M. Maloney autofilled, 2005
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United States Cavalry Peacekeepers in Bosnia: An Inside ...
This mission fell primarily on our attached psyops team, although everyone played a part.35 Several psyops teams rotated through short tours with Quarterhorse. The first was a Regular Army team from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. When this ...
Mark A. Viney, 2012
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Network World
significant component of cyberwar and cyberterrorism is called psychological i operations, or PsyOps. Simply PsyOps is the manipulation of the psyche of an adversary or target population with information, misinformation, disinformation and ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PSYOPS»

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The Jade Helm Military Exercise: The Psy Op?
PSYOP can be disseminated by face-to-face communication, audio-visual means ... From the perspective of PsyOps, the potential of Jade Helm to “learn ... «Center for Research on Globalization, May 15»
2
US F-15E Strike Eagle jet supports PSYOPS in Syria, drops leaflets …
A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle has delivered leaflets over ISIS insurgents in Syria. On Mar. 16, a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet deployed in the Gulf ... «The Aviationist, Mar 15»
3
Wanted: Brit Facebook and Twitter trolls for counter-jihad psyops
A new British Army unit will embrace web-enabled psyops and cyber-warfare to fight against the message of groups such as ISIS in cyberspace. The 77th ... «The Register, Feb 15»
4
Army breaks ground on new building for Civil Affairs and Psyops
But in less than two years, the location - once home to rows of World War II-era wooden barracks - will become home to the U.S. Army Civil Affairs ... «Fayetteville Observer, Jan 15»
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Ex-CIA officer worries US has lost 'psyops' advantage
Psyops is a planned effort to influence the emotions, motives and objectives – and ultimately the behavior – of individuals, groups, organizations and ... «WND.com, Dec 14»
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UK psyops created N. Irish Satanic Panic during the Troubles
During the 1970s, when Northern Ireland was gripped by near-civil-war, British military intelligence staged the evidence of "black masses" in order to create a ... «Boing Boing, Aug 14»
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So You Are Shocked Facebook Did #psyops on People?
Here is some background on the Facebook mass psychological testing as being reported recently. The study about the test itself, an interesting take on it by ... «Huffington Post, Jun 14»
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PSYOPs, “Media Warfare” and the “Weaponization of Information” in …
The US military then engaged in a campaign of “shaping operations”, which consisted of IO's (Information Operations), PSYOPs (Psychological Operations), and ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jun 14»
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PSYOPS – Wars Are Fought On and Off the Battlefield
PSYOPS influence the behavior of governments, groups, organizations and individuals. PSYOPS can be used during conflict or peacetime. Psychological ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jun 14»
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GCHQ's dirty-tricking psyops groups: infiltrating, disrupting and …
In a piece on the new Omidyar-funded news-site "The Intercept," Glenn Greenwald pulls together the recent Snowden leaks about the NSA's psyops programs, ... «Boing Boing, Feb 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Psyops [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/psyops>. Apr 2024 ».
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