army base
- noun
- /ˈɑrmi beɪs/
- The soldiers conducted their training exercises at the army base just outside the city.
So if you drive one hour N to Fort Hood now Fort Cavajos, it's a gigantic Army base that's one hour north of Austin.
- So if you drive one hour N to Fort Hood now Fort Cavajos, it's a gigantic Army base that's one hour north of Austin.
- Like for example, I once saw a request for for security services for Army base and Chad, right, which is country in Africa.
Examples
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You know that army base they're closing down outside of town?
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Your first duty is to go to that army base and rescue my husband.
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I found them on an army base.
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I live within a short distance of both an army base and an air force base.
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An army base with helicopters and a field hospital.
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I was born in Berlin, Germany, because my parents lived on the army base there.
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- There's an army base about 12 miles from here.
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First hit was Camp Funston, an army base in Kansas, where young soldiers were preparing for deployment to Europe.
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The facility, which had been an army base in both world wars, was set in the isolated scrub pines of eastern Long Island.
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Wells: Fort Benning is an army base, which is technically called a military post, in southwestern Georgia.
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Synonyms
A place where soldiers or an organization live and work
A group of soldiers and the fort where they are based
A base or group of buildings where soldiers live and work
A place where people plan and start activities like a military camp or company office
A place where soldiers live and work to defend an area
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Morphology
The meaning 'a military installation where army personnel are stationed' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'army' (land forces) with 'base' (operations/station). This noun+noun composition follows common, cross-linguistic compound patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Army base comes from a simple image: an army (soldiers) and a base (their home or center) where they live, train and keep their equipment. So, army base means 'a place where soldiers live and work'.