underground organization

collocation in English

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underground
adjective
adverb
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/ˌʌn.dəˈɡraʊnd/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈɡraʊnd/
below the surface of the earth; ...
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organization
noun
uk
/ˌɔː.ɡən.aɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɔːr.ɡən.əˈzeɪ.ʃən/
a group of people who work together in an organized way for a ...
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The party continued to exist, but was under the constant threat of legal harassment, and was for all intents and purposes anundergroundorganization.
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The party then began to operate as anundergroundorganization.
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He also became the lead organizer of anundergroundorganizationthere, intending to prepare an escape of the prisoners.
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Consequently, any legal revolutionary activity had become impossible, creating the necessary for anundergroundorganizationand underground struggle.
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In the early twentieth century a number of depot workers in the village had revolutionary ideas and their ownundergroundorganization.
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He built a powerfulundergroundorganizationto obtain food, medicines and communications of all kinds.
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From his early youth he took an active part in theundergroundorganization.
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He joined the camp's communistundergroundorganization.
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The party continued to exist, but was under the constant threat of legal harassment, and was for all intents and purposes anundergroundorganizationuntil 1936.
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A further 23,257 persons who had already been imprisoned declared themselves members of underground organizations in order to take advantage of the law.
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Those who continued to operate did that as underground organizations.
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No one has yet established that there should be any sort of underground organisation.
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It is in these cities and towns, in both open and underground organizations, that plans were debated and actions implemented.
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Some have described the organisation as an unknown shadowy and underground organisation.
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It became an underground organisation and in 1978 participated in the local government elections.
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As the news spread, members of underground organizations began firing and taking hostages.
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In large parts of the country, the local underground organisations took over the movement.
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