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GUERRILLA FORCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does guerrilla force mean?
• GUERRILLA FORCE (noun)
The noun GUERRILLA FORCE has 1 sense:
1. an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment; often rural and organized in large groups
Familiarity information: GUERRILLA FORCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment; often rural and organized in large groups
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
guerilla force; guerrilla force
Hypernyms ("guerrilla force" is a kind of...):
force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)
Meronyms (members of "guerrilla force"):
guerilla; guerrilla; insurgent; irregular (a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment)
Instance hyponyms:
Contras (a Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990; it opposed a left-wing government, with support from the United States)
Pesh Merga (a Kurdish guerrilla force in Iraqi Kurdistan)
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