paramilitary organisation

Questions about paramilitary organisation

What does paramilitary organisation mean?

paramilitary organisation means "a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops)".

What is another word for paramilitary organisation?

Close synonyms include paramilitary, paramilitary force, paramilitary unit, paramilitary organization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paramilitary organisation a common word?

paramilitary organisation 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.