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 force, paramilitary unit, paramilitary organisation]
Usage examples of "paramilitary organization".
Someone who left the service of the Constellation in order to join a crank paramilitary organization with delusions of grandeur.
With grimaces provoked partially by the paramilitary ritual Pacho was forcing them to observe (they themselves belonged to a paramilitary organization, but this fact did not occur to them at the moment), and partially by the stench of garbage and human excrement on the steps, they followed Pacho up to the second floor.
On Skandranon's suggestion, she had organized the gryphons, the other nonhumans who had served in the ranks, and the human fighters into a different kind of paramilitary organization.
The thought crossed his mind that the mailman's goal all along had been to establish some sort of paramilitary organization using the local kids, a youth group that would usurp the power in the community.
Only a few realized in all this that the highways were laid out on strictly strategic principles and that the Labor Service was a transparent paramilitary organization.
On Skandranons suggestion, she had organized the gryphons, the other nonhumans who had served in the ranks, and the human fighters into a different kind of paramilitary organization.
His books also made reference to various police departments here and there, and although every police department in the world acknowledged itself as a paramilitary organization, the meaning of individual rankings varied from place to place.