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counterterrorist

Definitions

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  • adjective Intended to combat terrorism
  • noun A person involved in counter-terrorism, who works against terrorists.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective intended to prevent terrorism
  • noun someone who attempts to prevent terrorism

Etymologies

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counter- +‎ terrorist

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Examples

  • That, by the way, is why the USMC uses the M40A1 (militarized Remington 700), and despite what Hollywood shows people using for long range shooting in counterterrorist units or whatever, SWAT and other mil tend to base their snipers around the Savage 10 or the Remington.

    Is Your Next Deer Rifle An AR? 2009

  • That, by the way, is why the USMC uses the M40A1 (militarized Remington 700), and despite what Hollywood shows people using for long range shooting in counterterrorist units or whatever, SWAT and other mil tend to base their snipers around the Savage 10 or the Remington.

    Is Your Next Deer Rifle An AR? 2009

  • Diplomats and military leaders had for years used numerous back channels to keep both groups on the sidelines while we engaged in counterterrorist warfare.

    Ten Years Later 2005

  • Diplomats and military leaders had for years used numerous back channels to keep both groups on the sidelines while we engaged in counterterrorist warfare.

    Ten Years Later 2005

  • T. Golan Stockholm, SwedenAmerica needs to invest in long-term counterterrorist measures like cultural understanding.

    Mail Call 2007

  • They instead want to have -- they want to fight, you know, with drones from afar and take out top al Qaeda leadership, what is -- a so-called counterterrorist strategy.

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009 2009

  • It's not a new story: the U.S. government, and the business interests it represents, lend "counterterrorist" or "countersmuggler" aid to a Latin American government, and the "aid", which happens to look a lot like military weapons, gets used to suppress student, peasant, and labor unrest.

    How the U.S. helps Mexico eradicate the Zapatista resistance 2000

  • David Kilcullen, a well-respected Australian anthropologist and 'counterterrorist' specialist,

    The World Can't Wait! 2010

  • Much the same can be said for the United States and its myopic "counterterrorist" policies that rely on the demonization of entire communities, driftnet surveillance of the population, the infiltration of provocateurs into antiwar, socialist and left-wing organizations with no demonstrable ties to international terrorism, and the induced climate of suspicion and fear that breed social paralysis in the face of grave, contemporaneous ruling class threats to democracy.

    Gorilla Radio blog 2009

  • In other words, under cover of conducting "counterterrorist" border searches, dodgy outfits such as the CIA, FBI, and the NSA are now asserting a "right" to have access to data seized from travelers 'cell phone directories, laptops, financial data or confidential business records stored in CBP databases "available" for their perusal.

    Information Liberation 2008

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