WordNet
paramilitary unit
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 organization, paramilitary organisation]
Usage examples of "paramilitary unit".
There is an opposed, paramilitary unit in me too which feels the opposite way about handjobs and wants to stamp them out altogether.
Then, they would begin funding a new paramilitary unit Gogolov was developing, run by a shadowy operative from Tehran by the name of Mohammed Jibril.