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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
Jack Schwartz

Meaning of "urban guerrilla" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF URBAN GUERRILLA

urban guerrilla play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF URBAN GUERRILLA

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Urban guerrilla is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES URBAN GUERRILLA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Urban guerrilla warfare

Urban guerrilla redirects here. For the Hawkwind song, see Urban Guerrilla. An urban guerrilla is someone who fights a government using unconventional warfare or domestic terrorism in an urban environment. During the Cold War, many were on the left-wing of the political spectrum.

Definition of urban guerrilla in the English dictionary

The definition of urban guerrilla in the dictionary is a guerrilla who operates in a town or city, engaging in terrorism, kidnapping, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE URBAN GUERRILLA

urban centre
urban clearway
urban conservation area
urban decay
urban development
urban development zone
urban district
urban district council
urban dweller
urban golf
Urban II
Urban League
urban legend
urban migration
urban myth
urban planner
urban planning
urban renewal
urban sprawl
urban studies

WORDS THAT END LIKE URBAN GUERRILLA

Anguilla
antiguerrilla
banderilla
barilla
cabrilla
camarilla
cascarilla
counterguerilla
cuadrilla
fibrilla
gorilla
guerilla
guerrilla
hydrilla
perilla
sarsaparilla
Sevilla
spirilla
villa
zorilla

Synonyms and antonyms of urban guerrilla in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «urban guerrilla» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF URBAN GUERRILLA

Find out the translation of urban guerrilla to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of urban guerrilla from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «urban guerrilla» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

城市游击
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

guerrilla urbana
570 millions of speakers

English

urban guerrilla
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शहरी गुरिल्ला
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

حرب العصابات في المدن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

городской партизан
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

guerrilha urbana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শহুরে গেরিলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

guérilla urbaine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gerila bandar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stadtguerilla
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

都市ゲリラ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도시 게릴라
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gerilya kutha
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

du kích đô thị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நகர்ப்புற கெரில்லா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शहरी गनिमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kentsel gerilla
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

guerriglia urbana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

partyzant miejski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

міський партизан
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de gherilă urbană
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντάρτικου πόλης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stedelike guerrilla
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

urban gerilla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

urban gerilja
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of urban guerrilla

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «URBAN GUERRILLA»

The term «urban guerrilla» is normally little used and occupies the 123.664 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «URBAN GUERRILLA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «urban guerrilla» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «urban guerrilla» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about urban guerrilla

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QUOTES WITH «URBAN GUERRILLA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word urban guerrilla.
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Jack Schwartz
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «URBAN GUERRILLA»

Discover the use of urban guerrilla in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to urban guerrilla and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world’s coastal cities, where almost 75 ...
David Kilcullen, 2013
2
Urban Guerrilla Warfare
Urban Guerrilla Warfare traces the diverse origins of urban conflicts and identifies similarities and differences in the methods of counterinsurgent forces.
Anthony Joes, 2007
3
Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla
Ann Hansen stood trial as one of the so-called "Squamish Five.
Ann Hansen, 2001
4
Urban guerrilla protest: reclaim 95-05
Proof that all over the world the voices of the people can be heard and paid attention to regardless of enormous corporate conglomerates.
Ake Rudolf, 2008
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Fighting in the Streets: A Manual of Urban Guerrilla Warfare
Indhold: Principles of Urban Guerrilla Warfare; The Urban Base of Operations; Improvised Explosives and Chemicals; Improvised Weapons and Munitions; The Ambush; Counter-Insurgency Operations; Security and Communications.
Urbano, 1991
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Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare
Such incidents attract headlines, but they are only part of the repertoire of urban guerrilla warfare, and not the most important part. On the face of it, the phrase ' urban guerrilla' is a nonsense. From the time of Clausewitz, it has been generally  ...
Sam Charles Sarkesian, 1975
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Guerrilla Warfare: A Historical and Critical Study
If the Cubans were opposed to "urban guerrilla" warfare but did not altogether exclude it, few of the advocates of urban terrorism rejected rural guerrilla operations in principle. It was simply a matter of different conditions and priorities.
8
Fry the Brain: The Art of Urban Sniping and Its Role in ...
Fry The Brain is a detailed, original study of urban guerrilla sniping and its employment in modern unconventional warfare. Fry The Brain strives to educate the interested reader in all aspects of modern urban guerrilla sniping.
John West, 2008
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Urban Guerrilla Warfare: Urban Guerrilla Warfare Handbooks ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
10
Urban Guerrilla Warfare Tactics: Sniper Warfare, Tunnel ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «URBAN GUERRILLA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term urban guerrilla is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jailed urban guerrilla urges comrades to take up arms
Police are on standby after the jailed leader of Revolutionary Struggle Nikos Maziotis posted a document on an anti-establishment website late on Wednesday, ... «Kathimerini, May 15»
2
South LA Man Fights City's Resistance To 'Guerrilla Gardening'
His dream was to create urban gardens, called HQ, that would serve ... for Finley by locals, including “The Gangster Gardener” and “Urban Guerrilla Gardener.”. «CBS Local, Mar 15»
3
Brazilian judge orders deportation of Italian former urban guerrilla
The Italian writer and former Marxist militant Cesare Battisti poses at his residence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2012. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
4
Urban guerrilla's mother and wife arrested after alleged accomplice …
Police have made another two arrests after catching Angeliki Sotiropoulou, an alleged accomplice of November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros and members ... «Kathimerini, Mar 15»
5
Urban guerrillas blast Xeros over failed escape
Members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group on Tuesday slammed November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros, who was preparing to ... «Kathimerini, Feb 15»
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Saudi national training extremists in urban guerrilla warfare - intel …
MANILA, Philippines -- A Saudi national has been monitored providing training in urban guerrilla warfare to members of the Abu Sayyaf and Kihilafa Islamiya ... «InterAksyon, Oct 14»
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The Rise of the Urban Guerrillas
Out of this collision of human tectonic plates emerges the kind of urban guerrillas who entered the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi on September 21 and ... «Asharq Alawsat English, Nov 13»
8
New urban guerrilla group claims murders of Golden Dawn members
A previously unknown urban guerrilla group calling itself Militant Popular Revolutionary Forces has claimed responsibility for the murders of two Golden Dawn ... «Kathimerini, Nov 13»
9
Book Review: 'Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban
In his latest book, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla, David Kilcullen, the Australian counterinsurgency expert, attempts to formulate a ... «Diplomatic Courier, Nov 13»
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Police suspect urban guerrillas behind murder of Golden Dawn …
The possibility that two Golden Dawn members shot dead outside party offices in northern Athens on Friday were killed by members urban guerrillas is being ... «Kathimerini, Nov 13»

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