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English
Etymology
From French ratissage, from ratisser (“to rake”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ratissage (plural ratissages)
- A raid (especially violent) carried out by the police or military, originally and chiefly carried out by the French in Algeria. and, prior to that, by the Milice (Vichy Government counter-terror police) in 1943-44.
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 26:The army […] subjected suspect Muslim villages to systematic ratissage – literally a ‘raking-over’, a time-honoured word for ‘pacifying’ operations.
2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 220:A second group of security men had appeared from within the museum, and lashed out with their clubs like warriors in a battle scene from a Kurasawa epic. […] ‘It's another ratissage. A special action.’
- (economics) A monetary device whereby national reserves are temporarily given up to a central bank.
French
Etymology
From ratisser + -age.
Pronunciation
Noun
ratissage m (plural ratissages)
- raking, combing, sweeping
- (law enforcement slang) search, search and sweep (operation), ratissage
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