DOMESTIC TERRORISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domestic terrorism mean? 

• DOMESTIC TERRORISM (noun)
  The noun DOMESTIC TERRORISM has 1 sense:

1. terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people

  Familiarity information: DOMESTIC TERRORISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMESTIC TERRORISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City was an instance of domestic terrorism

Hypernyms ("domestic terrorism" is a kind of...):

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)