domestic terrorism

1. 1.

   terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people

   “the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City was an instance of domestic terrorism”

   Broaderterrorism

   terrorism

Questions about domestic terrorism

What does domestic terrorism mean?

domestic terrorism means "terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people".

Is domestic terrorism a common word?

domestic terrorism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.