PARTISAN


Meaning of PARTISAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pɑ:(r)tɪzæn, AM -zən ]

( partisans)

1.

Someone who is partisan strongly supports a particular person or cause, often without thinking carefully about the matter.

He is clearly too partisan to be a referee.

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2.

Partisans are ordinary people, rather than soldiers, who join together to fight enemy soldiers who are occupying their country.

He was rescued by some Italian partisans.

N-COUNT

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