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terrorist

Definitions of terrorist
  1. noun
    a professional killer who uses a gun
    synonyms: huurmoordenaar
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    type of:
    liquidateur, liquidator, moordenaar
    a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
  2. noun
    a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities
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    types:
    computerkraker, hacker
    a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
    Jacobijn, jakobijn
    a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
    type of:
    diehard, extremist, hardliner, radicaal, ultra
    a person who has radical ideas or opinions
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