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corps
[ kawr ]
noun
- Military.
- a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone: corps of cadets.
the U.S. Marine Corps;
corps of cadets.
- Also called army corps. a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
- a group of persons associated or acting together:
the diplomatic corps;
the press corps.
Synonyms: , , ,
- Printing. a Continental designation that, preceded by a number, indicates size of type in Didot points of 0.0148 inch (3.8 millimeters):
14 corps.
- Obsolete. corpse.
corps
/ ɔː /
noun
- a military formation that comprises two or more divisions and additional support arms
- a military body with a specific function
intelligence corps
medical corps
- a body of people associated together
the diplomatic corps
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of corps1
Example Sentences
As the administration has expanded its marketing arm, it has also worked to uproot the classic structure of the White House press corps.
What did Amber do that so offended the Washington press corps?
So many corpses have piled up since a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck last Friday close to Mandalay, that they have had to be "cremated in stacks", one resident says.
The corps will scrape off up to six inches of soil from the burn area, but will not provide soil testing.
He notes, too, that the gas mask filters Siegfried helped develop allowed Jewish prisoners to clear corpses from the gas chambers.
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