POPULAR STRUGGLE FRONT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Popular Struggle Front mean? 

• POPULAR STRUGGLE FRONT (noun)
  The noun POPULAR STRUGGLE FRONT has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border

  Familiarity information: POPULAR STRUGGLE FRONT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULAR STRUGGLE FRONT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Popular Struggle Front; PSF

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:

Lebanese Republic; Lebanon (an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean)

Syria; Syrian Arab Republic (an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization)