militia
/məˈlɪʃ·ə/ n [C]Definition
› 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.
(Definition of militia n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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