parapolitical

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adjective

Of or pertaining to parapolitics.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectiveparapolitical (not comparable)

alternative para-political

  1. not comparablegovernmentOf or pertaining to parapolitics.
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    In addition, a more formalized committee structure was also emerging to complement and focus the political energy stirring in such meetings. This involved the establishment of an elected committee (and, more often than not, a local militia unit) at the circulo or locality level. True, the exact format of this basic institution varied somewhat from place to place since, in Mondlande’s words, “existing parapolitical structures, traditional and modern, have been incorporated in the structure of the liberation movement.”

    1985, John S. Saul, chapter I, in John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, section 1, page 68

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