[mɪˈlɪʃə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency
(e.g: creating a militia was no answer to the army's manpower problem)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (in sense ‘system of military discipline and tactics’): from Latin, literally ‘military service’, from miles, milit- ‘soldier’