GUERILLA FORCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment; often rural and organized in large groups

Synonyms:

guerilla force; guerrilla force

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("guerilla force" is a kind of...):

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

Meronyms (members of "guerilla force"):

guerilla; guerrilla; insurgent; irregular (a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment)

Instance hyponyms:

Contras (a Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990; it opposed a left-wing government, with support from the United States)

Pesh Merga (a Kurdish guerrilla force in Iraqi Kurdistan)