Terrorism

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the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political, religious, ideological in nature

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Information Class

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Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: terrorist act
plural: Terrorisms
possessive: Terrorism's
pluralpossessive: Terrorisms'

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