corps

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Those levee concerns come even as the corps is also being asked to review a first-of-its-kind plan to put a toll road - in this case 10 miles long - inside a river corridor, for which the agency has formed a special nationwide team of experts to evaluate.

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  1. noun A separate branch or department of the armed forces having a specialized function.
  2. noun A tactical unit of ground combat forces between a division and an army commanded by a lieutenant general and composed of two or more divisions and auxiliary service troops.
  3. noun A body of persons acting together or associated under common direction: the press corps. See Synonyms at band2.

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  • By 26 December the corps was almost nonexistent; it had literally died on its feet. —  Panzer Battles
  • The most usual and best means of supporting an advanced corps is by a considerable body of cavalry, for which reason, when necessary from the distance at which the corps is advanced, the reserve cavalry is posted between the main body and the advanced corps. —  Clausewitz, ON WAR - Book V-Chapter 8
  • Four units— Shikishima, Yamato, Asahi, and Yamazakura —of this corps were activated at Mabalacat. —  The Divine Wind
  • He wrote to his lifelong friend, peace activist Bertha von Suttner, who would win the Nobel Peace Prize almost a decade after his death, “Perhaps my factories will put an end to war even sooner than your Congresses; on the day when two army corps will be able to annihilate each other in a second, all civilised nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops. †—  Democracy Now!
  • "I hope with the new Obama administration the corps was already in the process of changing its behavior, and I hope this will help it along."
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from Old French, from Latin corpus, body; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. When first introduced (late in 17th century), sometimes spelled, after English analogies, cor, core (see core); from French corps (pron. kōr), from Old French corps, the body, later Middle English corps, modern corpse: see corps, corpse.
 

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