U.S. Army
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1.7
- proper noun
- /juː ɛs ˈɑrmi/
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Ejército de los Estados Unidos
- The U.S. Army can't win without you.
- U.S. Army Corps
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Army unit
Examples
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In the winter of 1969, an elite force of the U.S. Army was sent on a top-secret assignment in southeast Vietnam.
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I fly helicopters for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.
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This is the U.S. Army.
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Always gives me great pride in my country... when I see such fine young men in the U.S. Army.
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I held my last job as a secretary for the U.S. Army for exactly one year.
Fiction book (1992) -
The work is sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
Academic text (2011) -
A three-year tour of duty in the U.S. Army followed, which concluded with a two-year assignment in Germany.
Academic text (1993) -
He'd served in the elite of the U.S. Army, from infantry to Special Forces to a counterterrorist unit.
Fiction book (1999) -
Captain Nathaniel Lyon of the U.S. Army could hardly have seemed a less imposing warrior.
Academic text (2011) -
I fly helicopters for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.
Synonyms
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1.3
The part of the United States military that trains soldiers to fight on land
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4.1
Soldiers and army groups that fight and work on land, not in the air or at sea
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1.6
The army of the United States that trains soldiers to fight on land
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2.5
The main land force of the United States that trains and sends soldiers to fight
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the land-based military branch of the United States' is directly derivable from combining 'U.S.' (United States) and 'Army' (land force). This referential, compositional naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
U.S. Army comes from the parts U.S., short for the 'United States', and Army, a group of soldiers who fight on land. When the new country needed organized soldiers, this name came to mean the United States' land military force.