0 A paramilitary group is organized like an army but is not official and often not legal. --
In some countries, police and firefighters have paramilitary training.
1 a person who belongs to a paramilitary organization --
2 similar to an army, but not official and sometimes not legal: --
paramilitary forces
As a response, large contingents of the provincial police and paramilitary forces were deployed by the state.
He listed their functions as the maintenance of order, paramilitary operations, regulatory activities and regime representation.
At a collective level, paramilitary ex-prisoners may be perceived as a lesser risk than at an individual level.
The government cashiered over 300 army soldiers, ostensibly because of their links with paramilitary groups.
In the 1860s, it was much larger, more paramilitary, and more open.
How to create a constitutional forum for political discussion involving, amongst others, the paramilitary organisations, is as yet an insoluble problem.
In employment terms, paramilitary ex-prisoners may be individually or collectively perceived as a risk.
Military officers were promoted in spite of their well-known connections to paramilitary organisations.
