state-sponsored terrorism

1. 1.

   terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism

   Broaderterrorism

   terrorism

Questions about state-sponsored terrorism

What does state-sponsored terrorism mean?

state-sponsored terrorism means "terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism".

Is state-sponsored terrorism a common word?

state-sponsored 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.