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Mafia vs Terrorist - What's the difference?

mafia | terrorist |

As nouns the difference between mafia and terrorist

is that mafia is mafia, mob (organised crime unit) while terrorist is terrorist.

mafia

English

(wikipedia Mafia)

Alternative forms

* Maffia (less common)

Proper noun

  • (specifically) An international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
  • (by extension) Any organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; .
    • Somehow he managed to upset the Russian Mafia .
  • A party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered".
  • (an entity which attempts to control a specified arena).

    • Synonyms

    * (organization of Sicilian origin) Cosa Nostra, mob * (any organized crime syndicate) mob

    Derived terms

    * mafia * mafia state * Mafioso * Mafiya

    See also

    * Camorra * capo * godfather * goodfella * 'Ndrangheta * * Thuggee * Triad * Yakuza ----

    terrorist

    English

    (wikipedia terrorist)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
  • An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the in France.

    • Hyponyms

    * lone wolfer

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to terrorism.

    • Usage notes

    The use of the label "terrorist" is often controversial or subjective, since one person's terrorist may be another's "freedom fighter", and vice versa depending on somebody's personal ideology of beliefs. A cynical definition may be that a terrorist is someone who murders or terrorizes more of those for whom the terrorist is fighting, than his supposed enemies.

    Related terms

    * terror * terrorize * terroristic * terrorism * eco-terrorist English words suffixed with -ist ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

    (nb-noun-m1)
  • (person who uses terror as a weapon in a political struggle)

    • Related terms

    * (l) ----