guerrilla
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
government
marketing
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra (“war”), coined during the Peninsular War.
Inflected forms:
form: guerrillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guerilla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more guerrilla
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most guerrilla
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: guerilla
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids.
pos: noun
examples: The right-wing paramilitary's offensive against the Marxist guerrillas failed because they did not know the terrain well enough.
From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
gloss: A non-official war carried out by small independent groups; a guerrilla war.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A marketer who uses guerrilla marketing techniques.
pos: noun
gloss: A maker of guerrilla television.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla warfare, or its principles of small independent or non-official perpetrators.
pos: adj
examples: Wherever Nicholson was most wanted, there he was sure to be found. What his life was at this time may be seen from a letter he wrote to his mother: 'I am leading a very guerrilla sort of life with seven hundred horse and foot raised among the people of the country. The chieftain who is in rebellion has eight regular regiments and sixteen guns, so that I am unable to meet them openly in the field.'
On the other hand, after the fall of Feng Ling Tu, the operations of Central Shansi, and Suiyuan, troops were more guerrilla than orthodox in nature.
The Slovak uprising in the latter days was not guerrilla in character, which, incidentally, may have been one of the reasons for its failure.
gloss: Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla marketing.
pos: adj
examples: We took a very guerrilla approach to marketing Goin' Hollywood, in keeping with the irreverent tone of the game.
"Mozilla's marketing has been very guerrilla. You're not seeing it spend millions of dollars on TV. Instead, it's a powerful ground swell.
My style is more guerrilla. I grew up in a village, a very suppressed environment. I was like one of those young kids who hated the whole conventional way of doing things. So when I started to make films it was very hand-made, very fast.
gloss: Using unconventional, non-traditional, non-mainstream and often subversive practices to achieve something.
pos: adj
examples: guerrilla marketing
guerrilla tourism
guerrilla gardening
The Boston demonstration, which will feature singing and guerrilla theatre, will begin at 12 noon in front of the Park Street Subway station.
Jackass’s guerrilla, nonnarrative format
Related words: guerrillera
guerrillero
partisan
Derived words: antiguerrilla
counterguerrilla
guerrilla diplomacy
guerrilla diplomat
guerrilla gardening
guerrillaism
guerrilla knitting
guerrillalike
guerrilla television
guerrilla theater
guerrilla traveler
narcoguerrilla
nonguerrilla
guerrilla warfare
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