PARAMILITARY


Meaning of PARAMILITARY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pærəmɪlɪtri, AM -teri ]

( paramilitaries)

1.

A paramilitary organization is organized like an army and performs either civil or military functions in a country.

Searches by the army and paramilitary forces have continued today...

ADJ : ADJ n

Paramilitaries are members of a paramilitary organization.

Paramilitaries and army recruits patrolled the village...

N-COUNT : usu pl

2.

A paramilitary organization is an illegal group that is organized like an army.

...a law which said that all paramilitary groups must be disarmed...

ADJ : ADJ n

Paramilitaries are members of an illegal paramilitary organization.

Loyalist paramilitaries were blamed for the shooting.

N-COUNT : usu pl

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