army corps
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈɑrmi kɔrz/
- Specialized
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cuerpo de ejército
- During the exercise, the army corps demonstrated their advanced tactical skills.
- three army corps
Examples
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Stroessner's personalism had proscribed the emergence of strong military rivals, but Rodríguez's command of the largest of Paraguay's three army corps constituted a threat.
Academic text (1992) -
France and Germany planned to raise a joint army corps to serve as a defense nucleus for a European army—or at least for the nine EC nations belonging to the Western European Union.
Academic text (1992) -
So the US Army Corps decided that they needed to teach their troops, their army, their tank corps how to hunt like carnivores.
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The entire country, or numerous little chunks, would have to be pacified, and at that point, divisions might turn into army corps.
Academic text (1993) -
The Allies land ground troops at Gallipoli, including men of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the Anzacs.
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Over the next few months, two new neighborhoods were tacked on to Mancanzano's flatland periphery by an army corps of engineers.
Fiction book (2002) -
His army corps occupied Yucatan between 1915 and 1917 on the orders of national strongman Venustiano Carranza.
Academic text (2002) -
The army corps was deployed to support the front lines during the conflict.
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An army corps consists of multiple divisions and various support units working together.
Synonyms
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7.2
A large military group made of two or more divisions and support
15
2.8
A group of soldiers that does a specific task
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2.5
A group of soldiers organized as part of an army, like a platoon or company
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'corps' denotes a military formation and 'army corps' specifies a corps belonging to the army, so the overall sense follows straightforwardly from the constituents. This noun–noun composition is common cross-linguistically and follows standard military naming, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Army corps comes from a word for 'body': corps meant a single 'body' of soldiers and army shows it belongs to the army. So it means several groups joined together as one large military unit.