MILITIA


Meaning of MILITIA in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

local

The tsarist police force disintegrated and was replaced by local militias .

He wanted to find out if the local militia camp was where the intelligence briefers said it was.

He thought they were the local militia .

The colonists' principal instrument of slave control was the local militia .

According to the Bolsheviks' own admission, the local militia was incapacitated.

The local militia gathered at their barracks, but their officers were reluctant to hurt any members of the mob.

Thereafter, local militias organized by claimants to office would fight at the bidding of the state governor.

■ NOUN

group

Such resistance has, curiously, made Koresh a hero and martyr among some conservatives and right-wing militia groups .

leader

Analysts said Mr Muawad faced the task of uniting militia leaders who have been fighting each other for 14 years.

Twenty years of litigation followed before militia leader John D.. Lee paid for the massacre with his life.

The two militia leaders had been boycotting the Cabinet for several months.

The technical team also visited Kismayo, Baidoa and Beletuen, speaking with relief workers and other militia leaders .

member

Some of his friends remembered him saying he had been stalked by militia members , and for a while speculation ran rampant.

state

In the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the governor of Pennsylvania refused to call out the state militia .

In most cases, members of the state militias sympathized with the strikers and thus failed to break the strike.

unit

He could have a militia unit disbanded if he wished.

■ VERB

arm

No middle-aged man, it seems, ever belonged to an armed militia .

call

The governor called out the militia , but it arrived too late.

In the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the governor of Pennsylvania refused to call out the state militia .

disarm

To minimize risks, they would not be required to disarm the several militia groups responsible for recent massacres.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He left in 1803 without taking a degree and spent three years in a Wiltshire militia regiment.

In the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the governor of Pennsylvania refused to call out the state militia .

It stated that the militias should dissolve by April 20, 1991.

Resistance from left-wing militia forces and loyalist Civil and Assault Guards was intermittently intense but incapable of seriously holding up the advance.

The militia would temporarily be in the hands of Parliament.

The colonists' principal instrument of slave control was the local militia .

The governor called out the militia , but it arrived too late.

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