Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - militant

(militants) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. You use militant to describe people who believe in something very strongly and are active in trying to bring about political or social change, often in extreme ways that other people find unacceptable. Militant mineworkers in the Ukraine have voted for a one-day stoppage next month. ADJ • Militant is also a noun. The militants might still find some new excuse to call a strike. N-COUNT: usu pl • militancy ...the rise of trade union militancy. N-UNCOUNT • militantly Their army is militantly nationalist. ADV: usu ADV adj