Marine Corps
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3.6
- noun
- /mɑːˈrin kɔːrz/
- US
:
Cuerpo de Marines
- Philip Caputo details his experiences as a Marine Corps lieutenant in this widely acclaimed book.
- United States Marine Corps
- Marine Corps basic training
- Marine Corps base
What rank I had in the Marine Corps matters this much.
- What rank I had in the Marine Corps matters this much.
- There was a Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma.
- Zach left the Marine Corps and suffered serious PTSD.
- I flew to, I flew in Vietnam for the US Marine Corps killing communists.
- It was to Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.
- I grew up in Tampa, FL, originally left for the Marine Corps right out of high school.
- And I started reading up on the Marine Corps.
- Let's come back to let me give you some maybe easier examples if you were the head of the Marine Corps, Right.
- So he, in a way, I mean, he was a tough Marine Corps drilling Sergeant, but he had his eye out for me.
- It has benefited the United States Navy and Marine Corps, but I think it's also benefited and enriched Harvard University.
- And the reason he mentioned earlier, because as AUS Marine flying for the Marine Corps in Vietnam, I got very disenchanted with America.
Examples
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I was in the Marine Corps.
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The the entire British Army is smaller than the US Marine Corps, and the British have the best army in Europe.
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But I quit to go join the Marine Corps because I serve my country.
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I'm with the United States Marine Corps.
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By contrast, U.S. Marine Corps units were able to perform effectively from the beginning.
Academic text (1995) -
The visitor was an old Marine Corps buddy, still active and in uniform.
Fiction book (1993) -
At present, U.S. Army and Marine Corps reenlistment rates are strong.
Academic text (2005) -
Green thinks of his father, Frank, a retired Marine Corps master sergeant and 20-year veteran.
Academic text (2000) -
Well, you know, when I enlisted in the Marine Corps, I did so mostly because I had two friends of mine asked me to join them.
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He spent the better part of his adult life in the Marine Corps.
Synonyms
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7.2
A large military group made of two or more divisions and support
36
2.9
A part of a country's armed forces, like the army or navy
11
3.2
A branch of the United States armed forces trained to fight on land and from ships
10
3.1
A part of the US military that fights on land and from ships
10
4.4
A branch of the United States military that trains to fight from ships and beaches
1
3.9
A branch of the United States military that fights from ships and goes ashore
A group of soldiers trained to fight at sea and on land, often during beach landings
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Marines' (military force trained for amphibious operations) combined with 'corps' (a military unit) yields a military branch associated with maritime/amphibious duties. This follows a regular noun+noun formation and has clear equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Marine Corps comes from words meaning 'of the sea' (marine) and 'body' or 'group' (corps), so it literally pictures a body of soldiers for the sea. That's why the name now refers to the military force trained to work from ships and to fight on land after coming from the sea.