Paramilitary Unit (Noun)
Meaning
A group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops).
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The guerrilla fighters functioned as a paramilitary unit to attack the government forces.
- During the revolution, the resistance formed a paramilitary unit to help take over the government buildings.
- As a precaution, the security team at the border checkpoint treated all paramilitary units as a potential threat.
- Members of the vigilante group wore masks to protect their identities while acting as a paramilitary unit in their neighbourhood watch patrols.
- Under cover of night, a secret paramilitary unit conducted clandestine raids against rival factional outposts in the besieged city.