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swat team
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun swat team has 1 sense
- swat team(n = noun.group) special weapons and tactics squad, special weapons and tactics team, swat squad - a squad of policemen who have been trained to deal with violent and dangerous situations; Array is a kind of police squad, squad
CIDE DICTIONARY
swat team, n. [acronym: Special Weapons and Training.]. [acronym: Special Weapons and Training.].
a special group of police trained to deal with unusually dangerous or violent situations, and having special weapons, such as rifles more powerful than those carried by regular police officers. They are employed, for example, in situations when hostages are being held, or heavily armed persons need to be captured. Called also SWAT or S.W.A.T. .
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