corps
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5.6
- noun
- /kɔr/
- - What the hell does the Medical Corps know about intelligence work?
- press corps
- volunteer corps
- Peace Corps
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Watch on YouTubeAnd this is Katie who came up through the NASA astronaut corps, which is a boys club, right?
- And this is Katie who came up through the NASA astronaut corps, which is a boys club, right?
- That gave me a sense of an early sense of esperi de corps, you know, team stuff.
- Literally that was the start of my aspiration as an entrepreneur in the Peace Corps, in the Peace Corps in the middle of the jungle.
- They're they're a disguise, or rather a disguise of the Ousters is coming from Techno Corps ships that are attacking.
- Let me now turn to sort of Peace Corps has had, well, as in its natural course, has its share of crises.
- These Peace Corps, Peace Corps volunteers made-up stacks of cash around them because the cash currency was nearly worthless.
- Probably the best long term solution to say it that way is for Congress to provide the Corps of Engineers the money to fix the levees.
- If you look at the countries that are leading in terms of how they are young people are doing, their teacher corps largely comes from the top quartile of college graduates.
- My New Year's resolution is to be nicer to the White House press corps, you know?
Examples
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Certainly, no one from the press corps will be permitted on the premises.
Fiction book (1998) -
Hence, feelings such as esprit de corps and brotherhood play an integral part in military success.
Academic text (1993) -
You know, the Corps can get you some help.
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I was never in the Peace Corps.
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Yes, I was in the Peace Corps.
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I felt like I'd just joined the corps of engineers!
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Welcome to the Job Corps, the start of your now-bright future.
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I first arrived in Southeast Asia in 1968 as a Peace Corps volunteer in southern Thailand.
Academic text (1990) -
Dave stands alone at the podium while the press corps crowds every inch of the Briefing Room.
Fiction book (1993) -
The volunteers joined the corps to help communities in need around the world.
Synonyms
436
3.3
A group of people with shared interests
147
2.4
A group of people organized to do a specific job, like soldiers or a ship crew
1
9.9
A group of people who share a common purpose and work together
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
127
3.6
A part of a country's armed forces trained to fight from ships and planes to land
- Literature
52
3.4
A group of reporters from different media who cover the same event or place
46
3.4
A United States government program that sends volunteers to help people in other countries
- Archaic
10
6.8
A former part of the United States Army that flew military planes before the Air Force existed
- Formal
2
7.9
A strong feeling of pride, loyalty, and togetherness that makes group members support each other
- Specialized
2
4.4
A large military group of soldiers made of two or more divisions with support units
- Formal
1
6.0
A former branch of the United States Army for women soldiers during World War II
- Specialized
1
9.5
A group of dancers who perform together to support the lead dancers
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4.5
A college program that trains students to become military officers and usually requires service after graduation
1
7.0
A US Marine Corps unit that gathers and gives information for Marine missions worldwide
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word corps comes from French corps and Latin corpus, meaning 'body'. So a corps of journalists, diplomats, or engineers is a 'body' of people who work together, like the word corporation which also comes from the same root.