MILITARY UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military unit mean? 

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

1. a unit that is part of some military service

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit that is part of some military service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

force; military force; military group; military unit

Context example:

he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men

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

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Meronyms (members of "military unit"):

man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)

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 unit"):

legion (a large military unit)

spearhead (the leading military unit in an attack)

headquarters ((plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff)

contingent; detail (a temporary military unit)

commando (an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory)

militia; reserves (civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army)

IDF; Israeli Defense Force (the ground and air and naval forces of Israel)

Haganah (the clandestine military wing of the Jewish leadership during the British rule over the mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948; became the basis for the Israeli defense force)

Republican Guard (formerly Iraq's elite military unit whose primary role was to protect the government in Baghdad)

phalanx (a body of troops in close array)

echelon (a body of troops arranged in a line)

trip wire (a small military force that serves as a first line of defense; if they become engaged in hostilities it will trigger the intervention of stronger military forces)

guard (a military unit serving to protect some place or person)

mujahadeen; mujahadein; mujahadin; mujahedeen; mujahedin; mujahideen; mujahidin (a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad)

armor; armour (a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles)

air unit (a military unit that is part of the airforce)

naval unit (a military unit that is part of a navy)

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

task force (a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective)

enemy (an opposing military force)

command (a military unit or region under the control of a single officer)

Holonyms ("military unit" is a member of...):

armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)

 Context examples 

A courtesy title for an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, etc., or to a military unit.

(Chaplain, NCI Thesaurus)