Wat (wie) is PARTISANS - definitie
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Partisans; Partisanism; Partisan (disambiguation); The Partisans; Partisans (disambiguation)
partisan
['p?:t?zan, ?p?:t?'zan]
¦ noun
1. a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.
2. a member of an armed group fighting secretly against an occupying force.
¦ adjective prejudiced in favour of a particular cause.
Derivatives
partisanship noun
Origin
C16: from Fr., via Ital. dialect from Ital. partigiano, from parte 'part'.
Partisan
·noun Any member of such a corps.
II. Partisan ·noun A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.
III. Partisan ·adj Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.
IV. Partisan ·noun The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an Enemy.
V. Partisan ·noun An adherent to a party or faction; ·esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an Interest.
VI. Partisan ·adj Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
partisan
(partisans)
1.
Someone who is partisan strongly supports a particular person or cause, often without thinking carefully about the matter.
He is clearly too partisan to be a referee.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
2.
Partisans are ordinary people, rather than soldiers, who join together to fight enemy soldiers who are occupying their country.
He was rescued by some Italian partisans.
N-COUNT
Uitspraakvoorbeelden voor PARTISANS
1. with partisans, who were already there,
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2. has important implications for how partisans
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3. partisans together and their factual understanding
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4. that essentially the number of extreme partisans,
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5. about the plan versus partisans who
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Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor PARTISANS
1. Passionate partisans dislike compromise and consensus.
2. They have become partisans of the SPLM/A killing machine.
3. Calls to impeach Bush are not resonating beyond Democratic partisans.
4. Well–armed Iraqi tribes would be like the Russian partisans.
5. But many Republican partisans did not get their favorites, either.