terrorist group Meaning of "terrorist group"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals

Usage(s):

  1. At 20, Marwan is already a battle-hardened insurgent, a jihadi foot soldier in Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group, al-Qaeda in Iraq.
  2. Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras said the attack bore the hallmarks of a local, rather than foreign, terrorist group.
  3. Arnulfo Alvarado, say Philippine officials, was the name of a member, now dead, of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group.
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