NPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NPA mean? 

• NPA (noun)
  The noun NPA has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines; a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government; uses hit squads called Sparrow Units; opposes United States military presence in the Philippines

  Familiarity information: NPA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines; a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government; uses hit squads called Sparrow Units; opposes United States military presence in the Philippines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

New People's Army; NPA

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 "NPA"):

Sparrow Unit (a hit squad of the New People's Army in the Philippines)

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)

Domain region:

Philippines; Republic of the Philippines (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)

 Context examples 

A three-digit Numbering Plan Areas (NPAs) assigned to small divisions of the 19 North American countries included in the North American Numbering Plan.

(Area Code, NCI Thesaurus)