WordNet
n. a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) [syn: paramilitary, paramilitary unit, paramilitary organization, paramilitary organisation]
Usage examples of "paramilitary force".
Every planet, country, city, city-state, corporation, and radical fringe group had its own paramilitary force.
The change of direction into the desert would keep the brigands ahead of him, and the paramilitary force was still behind him.
Then came the startling realization of a secret paramilitary force drilling in the Tucson desert and striking northward toward the Phoenix preserves of Moe Kaufman and company.
The RUC had evidence of a loyalist paramilitary force called Sword and Shield (usually just referred to as The Shield), and of a support group working out of the mainland, acting as a conduit through which money and arms could pass, and also raising funds independently.
Thus, in time-honored military tradition, was born a shorter name for the local paramilitary force.
Members of his terrible New Jacobin paramilitary force, a resurrection of the league which did not hesitate to murder old women or young children if they belonged to the upper classes.
The police were very much the paramilitary force I was expecting to see.
Hes got us outnumbered, and the Broom Brigade is a paramilitary force, I said.
A member of the greatest Western paramilitary force ever to wage holy war.
Intellectually, he understood they were more like gendarmerie, a paramilitary force, organized and trained more like soldiers than policemen, but emotionally, Captain K.