Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense recces, present participle recceing, past tense, past participle recced
verb
If you recce an area, you visit that place in order to become familiar with it. People usually recce an area when they are going to return at a later time to do something there.
[British, old-fashioned]
The first duty of a director is to recce his location. [VERB noun]
Recce is also a noun.
Uncle Jim took the air rifle and went on a recce to the far end of the quarry.
recce in British English
(ˈrɛkɪ)
noun, verbWord forms: -ces, -ceing, -ced or -ceed
a slang word for reconnaissance, reconnoitre
Examples of 'recce' in a sentence
recce
While I was planning the trip up in Niamey I heard there was trouble in Lomé so I stopped the recce and came down to the coast.
Robert Wilson A DARKENING STAIN (2002)
47 That afternoon he and Jo went on a final recce of the house to convince each other once and for all that it was ready.