vigilance : Idioms & Phrases

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Vigilance committee

  • noun a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist
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  • a volunteer committee of citizens for the oversight and protection of any interest, esp. one organized for the summary suppression and punishment of crime, as when the processes of law appear inadequate.
Webster 1913

vigilance man

  • noun member of a vigilance committee
    vigilante.
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