0 a military force whose members are trained soldiers but who often have other jobs:
1 a military force that operates only some of the time and whose members are not soldiers in a permanent army:
Each militia represents one of the country’s political factions.
According to the peace accord, militia members should be able to keep the rank they received within their respective armed group within the integrated forces.
The militia repelled attacks from without and denied the executive the means to oppress from within.
He points out, for example, how the colonists adapted the militia institution over time.
The first concerns the organizational interests of the militia, and, to a lesser extent, the army.
Long before war actually broke out, the little villages and once-sleepy hamlets had become busy centres of militia activities.
The boys referred to here were teams of militias brought from town or other villages.
This reaction should therefore be placed firmly in the context of the contemporary debate which contrasted the auxiliary policy with proposals to reform the militia.
Those who support and pay for the militia insist that the fight against crime is also directed against the invisible forces of evil.
