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    PDFLP

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary changeplay

    Example:

    in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren

    Synonyms:

    Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; DFLP; PDFLP; Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Instance hypernyms:

    foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

    Domain category:

    act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

    Domain region:

    Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)

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