a group of people who are ordered by a government, the police, etc. to kill other people, especially their political opponents （受命于政府谋杀政敌等的）处决小队，暗杀小组 They started forming death squads. 他们开始组建暗杀小队。 People lived in fear of the regime's notorious death squads. 人民生活在对那个政权臭名昭著的暗杀小组的恐惧之中。