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field army

field army

noun

  1. military the largest formation of a land force, usually consisting of two or more corps with supporting arms and services
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

As a military enterprise, a rapid construction for the support of a field army, it is but a childish chimera.

Members of this committee are placed on duty with large organizations (for instance, a division, a field army, etc.).

The Belgian field army consisted of six divisions and a brigade of cavalry and numbered, on paper at least, about 180,000 men.

In brief, the scheme was the formation of a composite Field Army, backed by a second line of partially trained Auxiliaries.

Independently of the Field Army, the Volunteers had mobilised, and were occupying the lines north and south of the metropolis.

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