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JEM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does JEM mean?
• JEM (noun)
The noun JEM has 1 sense:
1. a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings
Familiarity information: JEM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Army of Muhammad; Jaish-e-Muhammad; Jaish-i-Mohammed; JEM
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
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)
Domain region:
Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
Context examples
Jem Belcher thinks great things of Crab Wilson.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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