English Dictionary

collateral damage

名詞

婉語 不可算名詞 通常

(military, euphemistic) Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that are the unintended result of military operations. / Harm to innocent people that results from policy decisions.

日本語の意味

軍事作戦の実施に伴い、意図せずに民間人や民間施設に及ぶ被害、すなわち民間人被害や民間施設の損壊を意味する。 / 政策決定などの結果として、無関係な人々に及ぶ被害や損害を指す。

Despite careful planning, the airstrike caused collateral damage that devastated several civilian homes.

慎重に計画したにもかかわらず、その空爆は意図しない民間人への被害と民間財産の損壊を引き起こし、数軒の住宅を壊滅させた。

意味（1）

(military, euphemistic) Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that are the unintended result of military operations.

A certain amount of collateral damage and destruction to the surrounding environment has always been viewed as a necessary but generally undesirable by-product of military conflict.

意味（2）

Harm to innocent people that results from policy decisions.

What is missing from this line of reasoning, however, is a frank assessment of the collateral damage caused by supply-side efforts and whether this harm outweighs the unproven positive impact of current programs, which is likely to be marginal at best.

意味（3）

Unintended victims of an attack targeted at someone or something else.

The versatility and specificity of PDT regards dosing and delivery may provide a far superior treatment and management of infection than antibiotics and minimize the risk of developing resistance as well as collateral damage to host bacteria.

collateral damages （ plural ）