Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun domestic_terrorism

1 sense of domestic terrorism

Sense 1
domestic terrorism -- (terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people; "the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City was an instance of domestic terrorism")
       => terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act -- (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)