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militia

noun as in citizen soldiers

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“She was hot-headed, had her own way of doing things,” Gill said—and so, he left to form a separate militia group.

Spending millions on speech is more like raising your own militia.

Islamist brigades including Suqur al-Sham, a 9,000-strong militia, are openly breaking with Western-favored rebel factions.

Jobbik, whose paramilitary militia faction was banned in 2009, won 20 percent of the national vote in April.

From the militia perspective, the Shia factions in Iraq break down as follows.

During the summer of 1862 between forty and fifty thousand loyal State militia were organized.

British repulsed by maj. Finney of the Accomac militia, at Pongoteague creek.

Some armed vessels were, however, speedily despatched from Rio, and a detachment of militia from St. Paul's.

Some people indeed talked as if a militia could achieve nothing great.

The finest militia that ever existed was probably that of Italy in the third century before Christ.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to militia, such as: commandos, reserves, soldiers, null, fighters, and force.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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