释义 |
insurgencyin‧sur‧gen‧cy /ɪnˈsɜːdʒənsi $ -ɜːr-/ noun (plural insurgencies) [countable, uncountable] formal - A communist group is waging a 21-year insurgency against the national government.
- About 50,000 people are estimated to have been killed in a decade of insurgency.
- But the final results placed him second and suggested that the Buchanan insurgency was ebbing.
- He was a gun-toting, pitchfork-brandishing, wall-building, Confederate flag-waving, black-hatted leader of an anti-establishment insurgency.
- Land mines are popular among armies and insurgencies because they are cheap to buy but expensive to clear.
- Maybe what they were planning would count as some kind of insurgency, treason perhaps?
- Salvador Samayoa was a leader of the Marxist insurgency seeking to defeat the army.
- The measures imposed new restrictions on press reporting of the Kurdish insurgency in south-east Anatolia.
an attempt by a group of people to take control of their government using force and violence SYN rebellion → counterinsurgency |