scorched-earth policy

[skawrcht-urth]

scorched-earth policy

[skawrcht-urth]
noun
a military practice of devastating the property and agriculture of an area before abandoning it to an advancing enemy.

Origin:
1935–40; apparently translation of Chinese jiāotǔ zhèngcè
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Scorched-earth policy is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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scorched-earth policy

noun
the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels 
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