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UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCE OF COLOMBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does United Self-Defense Force of Colombia mean?
• UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCE OF COLOMBIA (noun)
The noun UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCE OF COLOMBIA has 1 sense:
1. a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members
Familiarity information: UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCE OF COLOMBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCE OF COLOMBIA (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
AUC; Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia; United Self-Defense Force of Colombia; United Self-Defense Group of Colombia
Context example:
the AUC conducted over 800 assassinations in one year
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:
Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)
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