lightly-armed
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˈlaɪtli ɑrmd/
- Specialized
:
ligeramente armado
- Despite being lightly-armed, the defenders managed to hold their ground against the larger enemy force.
- lightly-armed troops
- lightly-armed opposition
- lightly-armed forces
Holy shit, I said to the Colonel, if they realize how lightly armed we are, we're dead.
- Holy shit, I said to the Colonel, if they realize how lightly armed we are, we're dead.
Examples
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As a result, peacekeepers are only lightly armed, solely for emergency use in self-defense or for the defense of peacekeeping positions should those come under attack.
Academic text (1997) -
The night of the Benghazi attack, four lightly armed Libyans and five American security officers were on duty.
Blog text (11) -
It was small, slow, and lightly armed.
Fiction book (1991) -
Lightly armed opposition troops would stand little chance in open combat against these forces, especially the Republican Guard.
Academic text (1999) -
There is no good reason for sending lightly trained, lightly armed fighters into the Syrian theater.
Academic text (2015) -
So, General Kagame believes that our force or 2300 lightly armed men should attack a heavily armed force of 32,000?
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Indeed, the reason the Israelis were surprised in Lebanon was that they had gotten used to fighting lightly armed and helpless opponents.
Blog text (19) -
The United States would have to stop periodic counterattacks by Iraqi heavy divisions against the lightly armed opposition formations.
Academic text (1999) -
The Security Council must reconsider the deployment of lightly armed U.N. peacekeeping forces into civil wars, a function not foreseen by the U.N. Charter.
Academic text (2000) -
The aircraft sounds died off in the night, and the battalion was marooned in the wilderness, a small lightly armed parachute force, meat for any armored attack.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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2.7
Carrying weapons for attack or protection
Soldiers who carry small, simple weapons and wear little armor
How Armed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lightly-armed is a simple compound of light (meaning 'not heavy') and armed, from arm meaning 'weapon' or 'to give a weapon'. So lightly-armed means 'carrying only small or few weapons', which is why such people or units often move faster and avoid heavy fighting.