guerrilla force

English Thesaurus

1. an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment; often rural and organized in large groups (noun.group)

hypernym	:	force, personnel,
definition	:	group of people willing to obey orders (noun.group)

instance hyponym	:	contras,
definition	:	a Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990; it opposed a left-wing government, with support from the United States (noun.group)

instance hyponym	:	pesh merga,
definition	:	a Kurdish guerrilla force in Iraqi Kurdistan (noun.group)

member holonym	:	guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent, irregular,
definition	:	a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment (noun.person)