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DEATH SQUAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("death squad" is a kind of...):
hit squad (a team of assassins)