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Definition of "terrorist group" [terrorist group]

  • A political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "terrorist group" in a sentence
  • "The same charge of providing their own services to a terrorist group would also be the undoing of a group of Yemeni-Americans living in upstate New York who traveled to Afghanistan on something of a jihad vacation in 2001."
  • "One way of measuring the pain that the drone program had inflicted on al-Qaeda was the number of audio-and videotapes that the terrorist group had released through its propaganda arm, Al Sahab."
  • "So, even building the simple gun-type nuclear device of the kind that was dropped on Hiroshima would be extraordinarily difficult for a terrorist group because of the problem of accumulating sufficient quantities of HEU."