United States Army Special Forces
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- noun
- /juːˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ˈɑrmi ˈspɛʃəl fɔrs/
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Fuerzas Especiales del Ejército de los Estados Unidos
- The United States Army Special Forces are known as the Green Berets.
Examples
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The United States Army Special Forces are often called to perform missions in hostile environments.
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Many soldiers aspire to join the elite United States Army Special Forces for their rigorous training.
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The United States Army Special Forces are highly skilled in tactics such as guerrilla warfare and sabotage.
Synonyms
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A very well trained military group that carries out secret or dangerous missions
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Highly trained soldiers who do secret, dangerous missions for the United States Army
How Demanding
Surface Forms
Morphology
united + state + Army + special + force
The phrase is fully compositional: 'United States' identifies the country, 'Army' denotes the land military force, and 'Special Forces' indicates a specially trained elite unit, so a learner who knows these words can infer it refers to a specialized branch of the U.S. Army. This structure is common cross-linguistically (country + army + special forces), so the overall meaning is transparently derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
United States Army Special Forces is a name that points to small, highly trained army teams: Special means they do 'secret or unusual missions' and Forces means military units working together. These teams often go behind enemy lines and help local fighters, so the name explains why they are trained for this kind of fighting.