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material support

material support noun: (in the context of support for terrorism) Any property, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safe houses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel, and transportation, except medicine or religious materials.

Noun

material support (uncountable)

  1. (US) (in the context of support for terrorism) Any property, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safe houses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel, and transportation, except medicine or religious materials

Questions about material support

What does material support mean?
Material support means (in the context of support for terrorism) Any property, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safe houses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel, and transportation, except medicine or religious materials.
What part of speech is material support?
Material support is a noun.

Words near material support in the dictionary

  1. material nonimplication
  2. material noun
  3. material nouns
  4. material science
  5. material sciences
  6. material support
  7. material witness
  8. material witnesses
  9. material-handling
  10. materialisation
  11. materialisations

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