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NOUN (1)

1. an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells;
- Example: "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981"
[syn: al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Egyptian Islamic Jihad
    n 1: an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s;
         seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it
         with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells;
         "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination
         of Anwar Sadat in 1981" [syn: al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic
         Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest]