VIGILANTE


Meaning of VIGILANTE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

group

Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs, adding to a vicious circle of violence.

Some had suggested forming vigilante groups to try to remove the travellers.

There were also reports of clashes between troops and localized vigilante groups established to provide protection against the activities of Duvalierist supporters.

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As such it means that vigilante heroes, nomatterhow good, are not the stuff of which Christians are made.

Bronson will return to the role of Paul Kersey to take on the Mafia in the latest sequel to the vigilante saga.

In no other circumstances would she have tolerated militant vigilantes operating with impunity so far beyond their own domains.

Many of the dead were said to be members of anti-guerrilla vigilante self-defence organisations.

Most anywhere else, vigilante is a bad word.

The hesitancy of the vigilantes seemed only due now to mutual dislike, which would soon resolve itself one way or another.

The original vigilantes are an example of people taking authority into their own hands when everything was unraveling.

Three pickups appeared at one end of town like vigilantes out of the plains.

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