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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 groupsplay

  Familiarity information: GUERRILLA FORCE used as a noun is very rare.


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GUERRILLA FORCE (noun)


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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