INSURGENCY


Meaning of INSURGENCY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A communist group is waging a 21-year insurgency against the national government.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

About 50,000 people are estimated to have been killed in a decade of insurgency .

But the final results placed him second and suggested that the Buchanan insurgency was ebbing.

He was a gun-toting, pitchfork-brandishing, wall-building, Confederate flag-waving, black-hatted leader of an anti-establishment insurgency .

Land mines are popular among armies and insurgencies because they are cheap to buy but expensive to clear.

Maybe what they were planning would count as some kind of insurgency , treason perhaps?

Salvador Samayoa was a leader of the Marxist insurgency seeking to defeat the army.

The measures imposed new restrictions on press reporting of the Kurdish insurgency in south-east Anatolia.

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