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What does terrorism mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word terrorism? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create public fear through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
  2. The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.
  3. A form of psychological manipulation through warfare to the purpose of political or religious gains, by means of deliberately creating a climate of fear amongst the inhabitants of a specific geographical region.
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The war on terrorism had something to do with this increase, but it doesn't account for all of it.
Can we stand idly by while in the name of the fight against terrorism countries are bombed or invaded by the US war machine?
Is it your sense that it's going to get worse before it gets better, this whole war on terrorism?
Various polls show that up to 80 percent of Americans expect and accept some abridgments of individual freedom to combat the threat of terrorism.
The abracadabra of war against terrorism found support from the BJP government.
But it was a huge shock to New Zealanders to see an act of terrorism take place within our coastal waters, and in our terrestrial areas, as well.

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