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Army

Meaning in military & defence, with examples

/ˈɑːmi/nounCore term

In military & defence, army means: The branch of the armed forces that operates on land; as a unit name, also a very large formation made up of several corps.

In Turkish: kara kuvvetleri, ordu

How it is used

Used for the land service of a country (capitalised in names: the British Army) and informally for the military as a whole. People join, serve in or leave the army. As a formation, an army is the largest land unit, above a corps.

Example sentences

  1. He joined the army straight after university and trained as a logistics officer.

  2. The army is replacing its old trucks with a new fleet over the next five years.

Common collocations

  • join the army
  • serve in the army
  • army officer
  • regular army
  • army base
  • armed forcesAll of a country's military services taken together, usually the army, navy and air force, organised and controlled by the state.
  • navyThe branch of the armed forces that operates at sea, with its warships, submarines, naval aircraft and the people who serve in them.
  • air forceThe branch of the armed forces that operates military aircraft and air defence systems and carries out missions in the air.
  • corpsA large formation of two or more divisions; also a group within the armed forces that shares a special role, such as a medical corps.
  • infantrySoldiers who operate mainly on foot, or in vehicles that carry them, and who take and hold ground; also the army branch they belong to.

More terms: Branches of the Armed Forces

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