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

1 sense of terrorist cell

Sense 1
terrorist cell, radical cell -- (a cell of terrorists (usually 3 to 5 members); "to insure operational security the members of adjacent terrorist cells usually don't know each other or the identity of their leadership")
       => cell, cadre -- (a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement)