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Warlord

//ˈwɔɹlɔɹd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.

    "Afghanistan's first major battle of the post-Taliban era ended tonight when the soldiers of the warlord besieging this strategic city south of Kabul ran out of ammunition and fled the battlefront in clouds of dust, cursing the warlord to his face for his callousness in committing them to a fight they were doomed to lose."

  2. 2
    supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak wordnet

Etymology

From war + lord.

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