Definitions

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  • adjective Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism; counterterror.

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  • adjective preventing or counteracting terrorism, or reducing the threat from terrorism
  • noun One who opposes terrorism.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ terrorist

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Examples

  • Again , if some " antiterrorist " freak have nothing better to spend his worktime and taxpayers' money on , but searching for terrorist meetings in SL and for nukes money in EU ......lmao !

    MMORPG Terror 2007

  • Q Mike, these discussions that you're talking -- are discussions underway on an actual nuts and bolts kind of antiterrorist strategy?

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996

  • ysbaddaden - 12/13/10 11:44am now, if your "anti-terrorist" forces helped to create would-be terrorists, helped set-up a terrorist plot, provided cash and gear to these would-be terrorists and then arrested them all and used them as reason for the existence of the "antiterrorist" forces you would be much closer to the american system of justice sic.

    Crooks and Liars Susie Madrak 2010

  • Khalid Tanveer/Associated Press Members of Pakistan's antiterrorist squad patrolled a market where people were shopping for the Eid Tuesday.

    Muslims Celebrate Eid al-Fitr 2011

  • German antiterrorist officials say they hadn't previously identified Mr. Uka as a potential militant.

    Frankfurt Shooting Suspect Had Links to Radical Islamists David Crawford 2011

  • Mr. Noble says he would shoot down any suggestion that Interpol should head up an international antiterrorist squad.

    Making Interpol Relevant Again David Pearson 2011

  • In 2009, however, Paris antiterrorist prosecutors started looking into whether the attack happened because France allegedly reneged on a pledge to pay commissions to middlemen related to the submarine contract, the people familiar with the probe have said.

    French Campaign-Finance Probe Advances David Gauthier-Villars 2011

  • The antiterrorist investigation was properly conducted by Spanish judicial authorities, but Mr. Dehbi said his reputation and his family's well being was hurt by the Interior Ministry's release of photographs and what he said were inaccurate allegations that led to his arrest.

    U.S. Terror Suspect Cleared in Spain Santiago Perez 2011

  • In a parallel effort to the campaign-financing probe, Paris antiterrorist prosecutors are trying to determine whether a 2002 bombing in Pakistan that killed 11 French citizens was retaliation for a failure to pay middlemen in Pakistan some of the alleged commissions linked to the submarine contract, people familiar with the probe have said.

    French Campaign-Finance Probe Advances David Gauthier-Villars 2011

  • In an interview published Sunday in Der Spiegel magazine, Alexander Eisvogel, the vice president of Germany's domestic antiterrorist agency, the BfV, warned that Mr. Breivik and the detailed, stealth preparations he outlined in his online manifesto could serve as a model for other anti-Islamist militants bent on violence.

    Norway Faces Dilemma on Openness Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

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