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Definition of corps in English:

corps

noun kɔːkɔr
  • 1often in names A main subdivision of an army in the field, consisting of two or more divisions.

    军(陆军的主要分支,由两个或两个以上师的兵力组成)

    the 5th Army Corps

    陆军第五军。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the down side, the British army was not a unified army in the sense of divisions and corps sized units.
    • Large units like divisions or corps are expensive and archaic.
    • Additionally, division, corps, and Army headquarters, along with their missions, will be realigned.
    • Once these units were sworn into federal service, they would be organized into brigades, divisions, and army corps along with regular army units.
    • Instead of deploying corps, our heavy divisions sufficed.
    • Since the beginning of February, entire divisions, corps and battalions from various military bases in Germany have been transferred to the Gulf.
    • Two or more divisions form a corps, which is commanded by a lieutenant general and has from 20,000 to 45,000 soldiers.
    • The Army's traditional brigade, divisional, corps, and ASCC structure also is being reviewed.
    • However, brigades, divisions, corps, and armies formed only as needed in wartime and were promptly disbanded during peacetime.
    • By decree from on high, corps and division commanders could not employ more than two platoons in offensive action.
    • For easier control of its artillery it was therefore normal to find divisions, corps, and even armies made up entirely of artillery.
    • Two to five divisions constitute a corps, which is typically commanded by a lieutenant general.
    • Grouped into corps, the panzer divisions proved tactically and operationally decisive.
    • I will remind you of the magnificent noncommissioned officers that lead our Army from corps to division, and all the way down to crew level.
    • The same challenges on a larger scale permeate division and corps level Battle Command Training Program exercises.
    • His rise in command was rapid, from brigade to division to corps.
    • The crown prince of Saxony was given the new Meuse Army, comprising three of First Army's corps and two cavalry divisions.
    • The thorough integration of intelligence will certainly extend to the transformation of our divisions and corps.
    • The troop commander should have a focus that is essentially provided by the corps or division commander.
    • The earlier created air-defense areas were disbanded and air defense districts, armies, corps, and divisions restored.
    Synonyms
    brigade, regiment, battalion, company, troop, division, squadron, squad, platoon, contingent, unit, force, garrison, section, group, detachment, commando, battery, band, outfit, cohort
    1. 1.1 A branch of an army assigned to a particular kind of work.
      (被指派特定工作的)队;部队
      the Royal Army Medical Corps

      皇家陆军医疗队。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rifle and cavalry corps were assigned for operations on the outer perimeter of envelopment.
      • Tonight, it is a job for the U.S. Marine Corps.
      • As a result, the Army kept him from going overseas and assigned him a job in the motor corps at his base.
      • But what about all the warnings from the army corps of engineers?
      • The country was accordingly divided into defense zones, each assigned to an army corps.
      • The Irish Defence Forces have army, naval service and air corps branches.
      • The WAC then became a separate corps of the Regular Army.
      • Will you be assigned to the radar corps or the mess tent?
      • Also the army corps of engineers is giving out blue tarps for people who did suffer damage.
      • He was conscripted in 1939 but, because he was blind in his right eye, he was assigned to the medical corps.
      • Probably no other topic has evoked as much passion in discussions among military logisticians as the establishment of a single logistics branch or corps.
      • By 1900, all modern armies had established balloon corps to provide timely and accurate battlefield intelligence.
      • Nez, now 78, volunteered to join the marine corps when he was in high school.
      • Military academies produce leaders in all branches of the officer corps.
    2. 1.2with adjective or noun modifier A body of people engaged in a particular activity.
      (从事特定工作的)一组;一队
      at 9:30 a.m., the press corps was handed what looked to be a routine list of orders
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When the team's current defensive corps fades or burns out, reliable new blood will be needed.
      • A small corps of people at corporate headquarters is nominated to keep critical services like IT working - if possible.
      • Out of this band has emerged a highly visible corps of hands-free devotees.
      • I think, by and large, this press corps likes George Bush as a person.
      • Having completely denied the White House press corps access, the administration isn't exactly in a position to threaten to withhold access.
      • Whilst there has been no official comment on the new measures, sources close to the government have confirmed that a special corps of Dome protection personnel is planned.
      • First, rather than integrating media affairs in its planning, the command simply handed off the press to a specialized corps of public affairs officers.
      • Well, right after the plane was reported, most of the White House staff and press corps were told to leave the White House grounds.
      • The Afghan press corps stampede Blair as he emerges from the plane.
      • By the time I arrived, several press corps members had been escorted off the reservation.
      • The Secret Service evacuated the White House, the press corps, the remaining staff there.
      • We don't recognize him, so Rachel asks Andy, a photographer and fellow press corps member, who he is.
      • I write to you from a special corps of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, with an offer for you to work for us.
      • As it happens, Jones was assigned to the corps of beam fitters - workers, Thomson assumes, who invariably labor alone.
      • I suppose they're quite a hardened bunch, the international press corps?
      • In front of the cynical audience that is Scotland's political press corps, he impressed several with his performance.
      • Others in the press corps didn't think there was anything untoward about giving political advice to Goldwater opponent Lyndon Johnson.
      • So now the question is: Will anyone in the Washington press corps pick up on this development?
      • We depend on a well-educated professional corps of enlisted people.
      • Mr Peare was one of the first corps of business studies graduates to emerge from Trinity College in 1965.
      Synonyms
      unit, division, detachment, section, company, troop, contingent, squad, squadron, regiment, garrison, battalion, brigade, platoon, force
      group, body, band, team, party, troupe, gang, pack
      in ancient Rome cohort
      informal bunch, crew, gaggle, posse
    3. 1.3
      short for corps de ballet
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Monica Mason encourages every member of the corps in a ballet like Romeo and Juliet to invent their own character and story.
      • Graham was concerned with theatrical balance between corps and soloists, performers and the space around them.
      • In the dance studio, I watch Hayley Farr, a member of San Francisco Ballet's corps.
      • While in the corps of The Royal Ballet, he was injured, and he spent time watching television while healing.
      • Perhaps no one works more intimately with the corps than the ballet masters.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, from Latin corpus 'body'.

Rhymes

abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your

Definition of corps in US English:

corps

nounkɔrkôr
  • 1A main subdivision of an armed force in the field, consisting of two or more divisions.

    军(陆军的主要分支,由两个或两个以上师的兵力组成)

    the 5th Army Corps

    陆军第五军。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Large units like divisions or corps are expensive and archaic.
    • Two to five divisions constitute a corps, which is typically commanded by a lieutenant general.
    • The same challenges on a larger scale permeate division and corps level Battle Command Training Program exercises.
    • The Army's traditional brigade, divisional, corps, and ASCC structure also is being reviewed.
    • I will remind you of the magnificent noncommissioned officers that lead our Army from corps to division, and all the way down to crew level.
    • Two or more divisions form a corps, which is commanded by a lieutenant general and has from 20,000 to 45,000 soldiers.
    • On the down side, the British army was not a unified army in the sense of divisions and corps sized units.
    • The thorough integration of intelligence will certainly extend to the transformation of our divisions and corps.
    • Once these units were sworn into federal service, they would be organized into brigades, divisions, and army corps along with regular army units.
    • Grouped into corps, the panzer divisions proved tactically and operationally decisive.
    • The troop commander should have a focus that is essentially provided by the corps or division commander.
    • The crown prince of Saxony was given the new Meuse Army, comprising three of First Army's corps and two cavalry divisions.
    • For easier control of its artillery it was therefore normal to find divisions, corps, and even armies made up entirely of artillery.
    • Additionally, division, corps, and Army headquarters, along with their missions, will be realigned.
    • Since the beginning of February, entire divisions, corps and battalions from various military bases in Germany have been transferred to the Gulf.
    • Instead of deploying corps, our heavy divisions sufficed.
    • His rise in command was rapid, from brigade to division to corps.
    • The earlier created air-defense areas were disbanded and air defense districts, armies, corps, and divisions restored.
    • By decree from on high, corps and division commanders could not employ more than two platoons in offensive action.
    • However, brigades, divisions, corps, and armies formed only as needed in wartime and were promptly disbanded during peacetime.
    Synonyms
    brigade, regiment, battalion, company, troop, division, squadron, squad, platoon, contingent, unit, force, garrison, section, group, detachment, commando, battery, band, outfit, cohort
    1. 1.1 A branch of a military organization assigned to a particular kind of work.
      (被指派特定工作的)队;部队
      the U.S. Army Medical Corps

      皇家陆军医疗队。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Also the army corps of engineers is giving out blue tarps for people who did suffer damage.
      • The country was accordingly divided into defense zones, each assigned to an army corps.
      • But what about all the warnings from the army corps of engineers?
      • Nez, now 78, volunteered to join the marine corps when he was in high school.
      • The WAC then became a separate corps of the Regular Army.
      • Will you be assigned to the radar corps or the mess tent?
      • Probably no other topic has evoked as much passion in discussions among military logisticians as the establishment of a single logistics branch or corps.
      • He was conscripted in 1939 but, because he was blind in his right eye, he was assigned to the medical corps.
      • Military academies produce leaders in all branches of the officer corps.
      • As a result, the Army kept him from going overseas and assigned him a job in the motor corps at his base.
      • The Irish Defence Forces have army, naval service and air corps branches.
      • Tonight, it is a job for the U.S. Marine Corps.
      • By 1900, all modern armies had established balloon corps to provide timely and accurate battlefield intelligence.
      • Rifle and cavalry corps were assigned for operations on the outer perimeter of envelopment.
    2. 1.2 A body of people engaged in a particular activity.
      (从事特定工作的)一组;一队
      the press corps

      记者团。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We depend on a well-educated professional corps of enlisted people.
      • By the time I arrived, several press corps members had been escorted off the reservation.
      • When the team's current defensive corps fades or burns out, reliable new blood will be needed.
      • A small corps of people at corporate headquarters is nominated to keep critical services like IT working - if possible.
      • As it happens, Jones was assigned to the corps of beam fitters - workers, Thomson assumes, who invariably labor alone.
      • Whilst there has been no official comment on the new measures, sources close to the government have confirmed that a special corps of Dome protection personnel is planned.
      • I think, by and large, this press corps likes George Bush as a person.
      • So now the question is: Will anyone in the Washington press corps pick up on this development?
      • In front of the cynical audience that is Scotland's political press corps, he impressed several with his performance.
      • Out of this band has emerged a highly visible corps of hands-free devotees.
      • I write to you from a special corps of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, with an offer for you to work for us.
      • The Secret Service evacuated the White House, the press corps, the remaining staff there.
      • We don't recognize him, so Rachel asks Andy, a photographer and fellow press corps member, who he is.
      • First, rather than integrating media affairs in its planning, the command simply handed off the press to a specialized corps of public affairs officers.
      • Others in the press corps didn't think there was anything untoward about giving political advice to Goldwater opponent Lyndon Johnson.
      • I suppose they're quite a hardened bunch, the international press corps?
      • The Afghan press corps stampede Blair as he emerges from the plane.
      • Mr Peare was one of the first corps of business studies graduates to emerge from Trinity College in 1965.
      • Well, right after the plane was reported, most of the White House staff and press corps were told to leave the White House grounds.
      • Having completely denied the White House press corps access, the administration isn't exactly in a position to threaten to withhold access.
      Synonyms
      unit, division, detachment, section, company, troop, contingent, squad, squadron, regiment, garrison, battalion, brigade, platoon, force
    3. 1.3
      short for corps de ballet
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Perhaps no one works more intimately with the corps than the ballet masters.
      • Graham was concerned with theatrical balance between corps and soloists, performers and the space around them.
      • While in the corps of The Royal Ballet, he was injured, and he spent time watching television while healing.
      • In the dance studio, I watch Hayley Farr, a member of San Francisco Ballet's corps.
      • Monica Mason encourages every member of the corps in a ballet like Romeo and Juliet to invent their own character and story.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, from Latin corpus ‘body’.

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