Meaning

3 senses
  1. Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla warfare, or its principles of small independent or non-official perpetrators.

  2. Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla marketing.

  3. Using unconventional, non-traditional, non-mainstream and often subversive practices to achieve something.

    guerrilla marketing

    guerrilla tourism

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Guerrilla gardening is gardening on another person's land without permission.

    Партизанське садівництво — це озеленення території, що належить іншій особі, без її дозволу. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

  2. In reports in America, guerrilla resistance by the Iraq military is called terrorism.

    deIn amerikanischen Berichten wird der Guerilla-Widerstand des irakischen Militärs als Terrorismus bezeichnet. — jakov

  3. Our troops were constantly attacked by the guerrillas.

    ruНа наши войска постоянно нападали повстанцы. — Eugenia

  4. He was waylaid by a band of guerrillas.

    ruЕго подстерегла группа партизан. — Wezel

  5. It's not "gorilla rain", but "guerrilla rain"; do you understand?

    deEs heißt nicht „Gorilla-Platzregen“, sondern „Guerilla-Platzregen“. Verstehst du? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra (“war”), coined during the Peninsula

Borrowed from Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra (“war”), coined during the Peninsular War.

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Forms

more guerrilla, most guerrilla
Comparativemore guerrilla Lesson
Superlativemost guerrilla Lesson

regular

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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