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Swat Team

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Noun

1. special weapons and tactics squad, special weapons and tactics team, swat squad, swat team

a squad of policemen who have been trained to deal with violent and dangerous situations

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Swat Team

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noun
police, especially US
a team of officers from SWAT, a military-like unit within the US police force, trained to deal with specially dangerous situations, such as hostage-taking and riots
As the SWAT team entered the building, they were constantly under fire.

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Swat Team

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n.
A unit within a police force that is trained to deal with situations of unusual danger, especially when requiring aggressive tactics or enhanced firepower, as in rescuing hostages, thwarting terrorist attacks or assassinations, and subduing heavily armed suspects.

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