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REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Revolutionary United Front mean? 

REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT (noun)
  The noun REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group formed in the 1980s in Sierra Leone; seeks to overthrow the government and gain control of the diamond producing regions; responsible for attacks on civilians and children, widespread torture and murder and using children to commit atrocities; sponsored by the president of Liberiaplay

  Familiarity information: REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT used as a noun is very rare.


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REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist group formed in the 1980s in Sierra Leone; seeks to overthrow the government and gain control of the diamond producing regions; responsible for attacks on civilians and children, widespread torture and murder and using children to commit atrocities; sponsored by the president of Liberia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Revolutionary United Front; RUF

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:

Republic of Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone (a republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961)


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