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UK
/pˈæɹəmˌɪlɪtəɹi/
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[ US /ˌpɛɹəˈmɪɫəˌtɛɹi/ ]
[ US /ˌpɛɹəˈmɪɫəˌtɛɹi/ ]
NOUN
- a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops)
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit
How To Use paramilitary In A Sentence
- Secondly, to stop paramilitary activities, thirdly significant disarmament, and fourthly, a public statement that conflict is over.
- Noriega had become increasingly dictatorial, relied on irregular paramilitary units, and was involved in drug trafficking.
- A sleekit character with a reconstructed nose, no hair, paramilitary tattoos. The Bloomsday Dead
- They downplay, or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist - tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling.
- The armed forces number 18,500 men divided into an infantry, a navy, an air force, paramilitary forces, border guards, and auxiliary troops of the Interior Ministry.
- Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men. Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
- The breakaway paramilitary organisation has been in decline for several months because of a shortage of expertise and resources.
- This paramilitary-industrial complex converts the rhetoric and conceptualization of fear into an economic reality.
- Paramilitary organisations of all kinds should disarm and disband.
- Black leaders in Washington have demanded a federal investigation into the use of paramilitary police units in poor neighbourhoods. Times, Sunday Times