PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Palestine Liberation Front mean? 

• PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT (noun)
  The noun PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border

  Familiarity information: PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah; Palestine Liberation Front; PLF

Instance hypernyms:

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

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:

Lebanese Republic; Lebanon (an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean)