Definition of "militant" []

• Fighting or warring. (adjective)
• Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause: a militant political activist. (adjective)
• A fighting, warring, or aggressive person or party. (noun)

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• "Militant opponents of the pullout have threatened to block roads this week and to bring Israel to a standstill when the army closes off the Gaza settlements in preparation for the evacuation. week before, Greenberg used the term militant to describe a Palestinian who ambushed and killed an Israeli motorist."
• "It defines the term militant to mean, 'a person or group willing to use force or strong pressure to achieve her aims '."
• "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his country is fully entitled to stop what he called "efforts to smuggle" weapons into Hamas-controlled Gaza - which he called the militant Palestinian group's "terror enclave.""