释义 |
paramilitarypar‧a‧mil‧i‧ta‧ry /ˌpærəˈmɪlətəri◂ $ -teri◂/ adjective [usually before noun] - paramilitary gear
- paramilitary operations
- In other countries, however, suspicions persist that the weapons and the paramilitary training were put to illegal use.
- More paramilitary than military, more maverick than paramilitary.
- Suspicions will now be increased that the regiment has been penetrated by a network of loyalist paramilitary supporters and sympathisers.
- The building trade alone, which is particularly vulnerable to paramilitary intimidation, loses millions of pounds a year.
- The Good Friday agreement was equivocal on decommissioning of paramilitary weapons.
- There had been no paramilitary involvement and no one had been injured, he said.
- They want to visit their gun shows, collect their armaments and enjoy their paramilitary games in peace.
- Usually it was a member of a political party; occasionally of a paramilitary organisation.
► Bombs & Terrorismcar bomb, noundefuse, verbdevice, noundisarm, verbexplosion, nounexplosive, nounfuse, nounguerrilla, noungunman, noungunpowder, noungun-running, nounletter bomb, nounmine, nounmine, verbminefield, nounMolotov cocktail, nounparamilitary, adjectivepetrol bomb, nounSemtex, nounterror, nounterrorism, nounterrorist, nountime bomb, noun NOUN► force· The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.· He is accused of hiring Barbie to advise the country's paramilitary forces on torture techniques.· Civilians and members of security and paramilitary forces are also reported to have been physically ill-treated after being captured or detained.· In the southern district of Faridabad there were visible pockets of tension, in spite of a strong presence of police and paramilitary forces. ► forces· The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.· He is accused of hiring Barbie to advise the country's paramilitary forces on torture techniques.· Civilians and members of security and paramilitary forces are also reported to have been physically ill-treated after being captured or detained.· In the southern district of Faridabad there were visible pockets of tension, in spite of a strong presence of police and paramilitary forces. ► group· It even had some influence on paramilitary groups like the Protestant Ulster Defence Association.· According to sources, the report urges paramilitary groups to commit themselves to exclusively democratic means and to total disarmament.· Things got progressively out of hand, and a paramilitary group took hold of the upper Maroni region.· Prime Minister Major favors elections as a path to talks since paramilitary groups have refused to disarm.· All paramilitary groups, including those on ceasefire, continue to raise millions of pounds.· I always suspected that this guy belonged to some anti-Castro paramilitary group.· The Right is better organised than the Left, and has already started forming volunteer paramilitary groups. ► organisations· They went to a hall where they would meet a cross-section of men from the various paramilitary organisations.· The paramilitary organisations, on either side of the political divide, remain active and hard to penetrate.· Gangsters and racketeers gained a hold on sections of the urban paramilitary organisations quite early.· Prisoners' families often end up relying on paramilitary organisations for transport to jails.· The Ulster Workers' Council joined as did the remaining paramilitary organisations.· Only the two main loyalist urban paramilitary organisations were able occasionally to produce a bomb of that size.· It turns neighbour against neighbour, breaking down trust in a way that the paramilitary organisations are finding easy to exploit. ► police· The protestors eventually surrendered to paramilitary police.· Armed paramilitary police placed central Turin under a virtual state of siege for the hearing on Saturday morning.· I had not previously read anything about a paramilitary police force. 1a paramilitary organization is an illegal group that is organized like an army: extremist paramilitary groups2relating to or helping a military organization: the paramilitary police—paramilitary noun [countable] |