red army faction

1. 1.

   a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998

   SynonymsRAF

   Broaderterrorist organization

   Germany · terrorism

Questions about red army faction

What does red army faction mean?

red army faction means "a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998".

What is another word for red army faction?

Close synonyms include RAF. 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 red army faction a common word?

red army faction 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.