MILITARY POSTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military posture mean? 

• MILITARY POSTURE (noun)
  The noun MILITARY POSTURE has 1 sense:

1. capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war

  Familiarity information: MILITARY POSTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY POSTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

military capability; military posture; military strength; posture; strength

Context example:

politicians have neglected our military posture

Hypernyms ("military posture" is a kind of...):

capability; capableness (the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military posture"):

sea power (naval strength)

firepower ((military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target)