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ARMY CORPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does army corps mean? 

ARMY CORPS (noun)
  The noun ARMY CORPS has 1 sense:

1. an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their supportplay

  Familiarity information: ARMY CORPS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ARMY CORPS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

army corps; corps

Hypernyms ("army corps" is a kind of...):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

Meronyms (members of "army corps"):

division (an army unit large enough to sustain combat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "army corps"):

WAC; Women's Army Corps (an army corps that was organized in World War II but is no longer a separate branch of the United States Army)

Reserve Officers Training Corps; ROTC (a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers)

Holonyms ("army corps" is a member of...):

army; ground forces; regular army (a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state)


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