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insurgency pl: -cies : the quality or state of being insurgent ;specif : a condition of revolt against a recognized government that does not reach the proportions of an organized revolutionary government and is not recognized as belligerency ...

insurgent

insurgent 1 : a person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government ;esp : one not recognized as a belligerent 2 : one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as of a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies adj : rising in opposition to civil or political authority or against an established government ...

Organised crime

Organised crime, in Europe, the terms 'organised crime' and 'professional crime' are largely inter-changeable. As compared to American standards, the European criminal orgainsations are small-scale and short-lived. Such crimes are defined as involving system of specifically defined relation-ship with mutual obligation and privileges and association of a small group of criminals for the execution of the intended crime. The eruption of organised crime in India is of recent origin and is at the initial stage. It is the need of the hour to control such criminal activities which tempt the persons involved to amass huge profit. Such crimes have not only a legal facet but have a social and economic aspect which is required to be felt and dealt with by all concerned including the judiciary, the executive, the politicians, the social reformers, the intelligentsia and the law enforcing agency, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, (2001) 9 SCC 1.Means any continuing unlawful activity...

insurrectionary

insurrectionary : of, relating to, or constituting insurrection ;also : given to or tending to induce insurrection n : a participant in insurrection : insurgent ...

Camisard

One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV after the revocation of the edict of Nates so called from the peasants smock camise which they wore...

Chouan

One of the royalist insurgents in western France Brittany etc during and after the French revolution...

Insurgence

A state of insurrection an uprising an insurrection...

Insurgent

Rising in opposition to civil or political authority or against an established government insubordinate rebellious...

Insurrectionist

One who favors or takes part in insurrection an insurgent...

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