noun
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A group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion, but which do not represent the formal forces of a sovereign power.
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A member of a paramilitary group.
adjective
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Relating to a paramilitary
Examples of paramilitary in a Sentence
In the paramilitary organization that relied on secrecy and loyalty to survive, the soldiers followed the man they trusted most.
Despite this murder, the loyalist paramilitary cease-fire was still deemed to be in place.
They want lasting peace in a just society in which paramilitary violence plays no part.
A man has received a gunshot wound to the back of the left leg in a paramilitary style attack in North Down.
Richard Johnson of the Police One website has written extensively about the effects of "paramilitary" style uniforms versus more casual wear for law enforcement.
Police are determined to tackle incidents of organized criminality with paramilitary links.
As a reporter in the Belfast office of the Dublin-based Sunday World he had investigated the criminal and paramilitary activities of loyalist gangs.
Vega helps her escape, and Cammy, suffering from amnesia, is deposited at the British Delta Red paramilitary organization.
After the troubling events of the first season, Jason spent a portion of season two studying with the Fellowship of the Sun, a paramilitary religious movement angling to wipe out vampires.
Instead of fighting the guerrillas, the army and pro -government paramilitary death squads target people they consider sympathizers.