NOUN
- a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops)
How To Use paramilitary unit In A Sentence
- Noriega had become increasingly dictatorial, relied on irregular paramilitary units, and was involved in drug trafficking.
- The group had the feel of a paramilitary unit when it used aggressive tactics to deal with the industrial disputes of the 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
- Was this a rock group, or a paramilitary unit? Times, Sunday Times
- Some of the dead wear green Libyan army fatigues, others the camouflage uniform of police paramilitary units. Times, Sunday Times
- Was this a rock group, or a paramilitary unit? Times, Sunday Times
- Some of the dead wear green Libyan army fatigues, others the camouflage uniform of police paramilitary units. Times, Sunday Times
- Stability Unit and paramilitary units in the police force, and bring an end to police 'brutalities' in industrial disputes. ANC Daily News Briefing
- What we have would be better described as thuggish paramilitary units occupying what they regard as hostile territory. You got served and protected #3: preemptive “reasonable force” in Blackburn, Lancashire
- He was convoking a secret paramilitary unit called the Third Force.
- The division's long columns of trucks and Humvee armoured vehicles avoided Iraqi army and paramilitary units as they pushed north on Thursday and Friday.
