Revolutionary Organization 17 November
- proper noun
- NSFW
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Organización Revolucionaria 17 de Noviembre
- The Greek police dismantled Revolutionary Organization 17 November in 2002 after a series of arrests.
Examples
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Many diplomats were targeted by Revolutionary Organization 17 November during its decades of activity.
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In the 1980s, the Revolutionary Organization 17 November carried out several high-profile assassinations.
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Authorities linked the assassination to the Marxist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
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The Revolutionary Organization 17 November was notorious for its violent tactics.
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Authorities linked the assassination to the Marxist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
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Many diplomats were targeted by Revolutionary Organization 17 November during its decades of activity.
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The Greek police dismantled Revolutionary Organization 17 November in 2002 after a series of arrests.
Synonyms
A violent political group in Greece active from 1975 to 2002 that attacked foreign officials
Surface Forms
Morphology
revolutionary + organization + seventeen + November
The phrase transparently combines 'revolutionary' + 'organization' and a date ('17 November'), so a B1 learner who knows the words would infer it is a group advocating radical political change and that the name refers to a date (an organization named after November 17). However, the specific facts—that it was a Greek, Marxist–Leninist militant group responsible for assassinations and attacks—are unpredictable from the constituents, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Revolutionary Organization 17 November comes from the date 17 November, a well-known student protest in Greece in 1973. The group used that date in its name to show it followed the protest's spirit and wanted 'revolutionary' change, so the name shows their political aim.
