- using, or willing to use, force or strong pressure to achieve your aims, especially to achieve social or political change
- militant groups/leaders
- Some trade unions have a more militant approach to pay negotiations.
- Partly because of the militant feminist movement, women got the vote in 1918.
Extra ExamplesTopics Social issuesc1- The women on the march were highly militant.
- Militant groups have been blamed for a series of attacks in the region.
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Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘engaged in warfare’): from Old French, or from Latin militant- ‘serving as a soldier’, from the verb militare, from miles, milit- ‘soldier’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.
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