guerrilla fighter

collocation in English

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guerrilla
noun[C]
uk
/ɡəˈrɪl.ə/us
/ɡəˈrɪl.ə/
a member of an unofficial military group that is trying to change the government by making sudden, unexpected attacks on the official ...
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fighter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfaɪ.tər/us
/ˈfaɪ.t̬ɚ/
someone who fights in a battle or in a physical fight against ...
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The group recruited numerous guerrilla fighters and began targeting government and military objectives.
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If police action is not sufficient to stop the guerrilla fighters, military sweeps may be necessary.
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Her affection towards the fighter reflects the support and contribution of the civilians to the guerrilla fighters of the war.
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The guerrilla fighters were said to have been meeting to discuss the abandonment of the guerrilla struggle, in favour of participating in the political process.
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The girls are members of a former hip hop dancing troupe who have become guerrilla fighters.
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It's also generally known that the commandos eliminated more guerrilla fighters and captured more weaponry than the other forces.
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Aguerrillafighteris bred on a spirit of destruction and is not easily repatriated into the community as an ordinary citizen.
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His violent nature stems from traumas he received as aguerrillafighterin his youth.
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His commander had felt that his special forces training as aguerrillafighterwould be an advantage in combatting guerrillas, and this proved to be true.
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He was also aguerrillafighter.
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Some 22,000 guerrilla fighters were facing over 84,000 troops, vastly superior ordnance and with the prospect of heavy reinforcements.
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We cannot have a peaceful handover while guerrilla fighters are operating within the country.
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Then there are the incursions of the guerrilla fighters.
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I do not believe the guerrilla fighters will have any success in the south.
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Most of them are not yet on higher education but are being trained as party workers, sometimes as guerrilla fighters or saboteurs, but very often as good party organisers.
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There has been, and there always will be in these debates, a condemnation of what people call the guerrilla fighters, and we all argue about who is responsible for what.
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On the accusation of violence by the liberation forces and the guerrilla fighters.
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He organized resistance groups and trained many other guerrilla fighters.
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Therefore, the companies would finance guerrilla fighters, presidential campaigns and governments.
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It soon became the guidebook for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world.
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The guerrilla fighters disarmed and received land to work.
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