UNITED SELF-DEFENSE GROUP OF COLOMBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United Self-Defense Group of Colombia mean? 

• UNITED SELF-DEFENSE GROUP OF COLOMBIA (noun)
  The noun UNITED SELF-DEFENSE GROUP OF COLOMBIA has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members

  Familiarity information: UNITED SELF-DEFENSE GROUP OF COLOMBIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED SELF-DEFENSE GROUP OF COLOMBIA (noun)

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Meaning:

A terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

AUC; Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia; United Self-Defense Force of Colombia; United Self-Defense Group of Colombia

Context example:

the AUC conducted over 800 assassinations in one year

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:

Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)