Reserve Officers Training Corps
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- noun
- /rɪˈzɜrv ˈɔfɪsərz ˈtreɪnɪŋ kɔrz/
- US
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Cuerpo de Entrenamiento de Oficiales de Reserva
- For example, students in a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) have significantly higher scores than students in the same school who are not in the JROTC program (Bulach 2002).
- Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
- Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps
- Reserve Officers Training Corps program
Examples
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Founded in 1819 as the first private military college in the United States, Norwich University is the birthplace of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and the first college in the country to offer engineering studies.
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Through the development of the program and the further strengthening, the university established a Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1894.
Academic text (1996) -
Currently, Butler, who attends East High School, is a cadet major in the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.
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As for the King, Presley was at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1958 when Suter was doing Reserve Officers' Training Corps duty.
Academic text (2011) -
Officers usually enter the service through other channels: Officer Candidate School/Officer Training School, Reserve Officer Training Corps, service academies, and special commissioning programs.
Academic text (1992) -
The survey was developed over the course of a year and was pilot-tested on a sample of students enrolled in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Syracuse University.
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Also, in October of 1991, a young Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadet wore his uniform to another Ohio university classroom, this time at the University of Cincinnati.
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The Reserve Officers Training Corps program at my university prepares students to become leaders in the military after graduation.
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Many students join the Reserve Officers Training Corps to gain leadership skills while earning their college degrees.
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After completing the Reserve Officers Training Corps, she was commissioned as an officer in the Army.
Synonyms
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A college program that trains students to be officers in the military
How Prestigious
Surface Forms
Morphology
reserves + officer + training + corps
The phrase is largely compositional: the constituents signal a (military) corps that provides training for reserve officers, so a learner who knows 'reserve(s)', 'officer', 'training' and 'corps' can infer it relates to military officer training. However, it is an institutional, culture-specific label (commonly a US college program) and the formal noun 'corps' and details about commissioning upon graduation are not fully predictable for a B1 learner, so full meaning requires extra world knowledge.
Etymology
The name Reserve Officers Training Corps gives a clear image: it is a corps, or group at college, that gives training so students can become officers in the reserve forces. That's why the phrase means 'a college program that trains students to become military officers who will serve after graduation'.