Usually means: Using civilians to deter attacks.
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  1. human shield: Merriam-Webster
  2. human shield: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. human shield: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. human shield: Collins English Dictionary
  5. human shield: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. human shield: Wiktionary
  7. human shield: Dictionary.com
  8. Human Shield (political party), Human shield, The Human Shield: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. human shield: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. human shield: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. human shield: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Terrorism Terms (No longer online)

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  1. human shield: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (human shield)

noun:  (military) Civilians which a military group has deliberately placed combat targets near to deter an enemy from attacking those targets.
noun:  (figurative, rhetoric) Third parties used cynically to divert attention away from accusations against oneself.

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