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ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Islamic Resistance Movement mean? 

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombingplay

  Familiarity information: ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.


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ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Hamas; Islamic Resistance Movement

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Meronyms (parts of "Islamic Resistance Movement"):

Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions; Qassam Brigades; Salah al-Din Battalions (the military arm of Hamas responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks on Israel)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)


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