army : Idioms & Phrases

• noun Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals; seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests; responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing western tourists in Yemen
  Aden-Abyan Islamic Army; IAA; Islamic Army of Aden.
  

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• noun a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia
  ASALA; 3rd October Organization; Orly Group.
  
  • ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in 1983 killed 8 and wounded 55 people

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• noun tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects
  driver ant; legionary ant.
  

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• noun a military attache who is a commissioned or warrant officer in an army
  

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• noun a large base of operations for an army
  

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• noun the child of a career officer of the United States Army
  

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• noun an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support
  corps.
  

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• noun larvae (of a noctuid moth) that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the midwestern states
  Chorizagrotis auxiliaris.
  

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• noun a member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work
  military engineer.
  

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• noun a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again
  FAR; Interahamwe; ALIR; Former Armed Forces.
  
  • in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists

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• noun a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications; a partnership of government and university and industry
  AHPCRC.
  

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• noun temporary military shelter
  hut; field hut.
  

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• noun an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders
  AI.
  

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• noun a civilian reserve component of the United States Army comprised of guardsmen who serve during overseas peacekeeping missions and during local emergencies
  ARNG.
  

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• noun a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings
  Jaish-i-Mohammed; Jaish-e-Muhammad; JEM.
  

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• noun the southern army during the American Civil War
  Army of the Confederacy.
  

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• noun a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India
  Army of the Pure; LET; Lashkar-e-Taiba; Lashkar-e-Tayyiba; Lashkar-e-Toiba.
  
  • Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus

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• noun a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India
  Army of the Pure; LET; Lashkar-e-Taiba; Lashkar-e-Tayyiba; Lashkar-e-Toiba.
  
  • Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus

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• noun an officer in the armed forces
  
  • he's a retired army officer

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• noun an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
  armoured combat vehicle; armored combat vehicle; tank.
  

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• noun a military unit that is part of an army
  

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• noun noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain
  armyworm; Pseudaletia unipuncta.
  

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Ar"my worm`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm. (b) The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton.

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• the body or troops ossupying the place in the line between the wings.

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• noun the southern army during the American Civil War
  Army of the Confederacy.
  

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• noun the American army during the American Revolution
  

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• noun a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in 1994 as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein
  CIRA; Continuity Army Council.
  

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• noun a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in 1994 as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein
  CIRA; Continuity Army Council.
  

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• noun a terrorist organization founded in 1999 to oppose the link between nationalists and the Corsican mafia
  Armata Corsa.
  
  • the attacks of Armata Corsa are aimed at symbolic targets of colonialism in Corsica

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• noun a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire; has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement
  RIRA; Dissident Irish Republican Army; Real IRA.
  

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• (Mil.) a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm. Farrow.

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• noun a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland
  Irish National Liberation Army; People's Liberation Army; INLA; Catholic Reaction Force.
  

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• noun a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland
  Irish Republican Army; IRA; Provos; Provisional IRA.
  

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• noun Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals; seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests; responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing western tourists in Yemen
  Aden-Abyan Islamic Army; IAA; Islamic Army of Aden.
  

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• noun Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals; seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests; responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing western tourists in Yemen
  Aden-Abyan Islamic Army; IAA; Islamic Army of Aden.
  

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• noun a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists
  Anti-Imperialist International Brigade; JRA.
  
  • in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel

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• noun a quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army
  

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• noun a Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade
  ELN.
  
  • ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations
• noun a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s
  Nestor Paz Zamora Commission; ELN; CNPZ.
  

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• noun a group of like-minded people united by the internet; a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern
  
  • a network army of software programmers contribute free software to those who want it

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• noun a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines; a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government; uses hit squads called Sparrow Units; opposes United States military presence in the Philippines
  NPA.
  

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• noun a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland
  Irish National Liberation Army; People's Liberation Army; INLA; Catholic Reaction Force.
  

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• noun a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland
  Irish National Liberation Army; People's Liberation Army; INLA; Catholic Reaction Force.
  

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• noun a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland
  Irish Republican Army; IRA; Provos; Provisional IRA.
  

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• noun a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire; has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement
  RIRA; Dissident Irish Republican Army; Real IRA.
  

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• noun a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
  RAF.
  

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• noun a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state
  ground forces; army.
  

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• noun an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s
  Alex Boncayao Brigade; ABB; RPA-ABB.
  

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• noun a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless
  

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• noun a permanent army of paid soldiers
  

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• a permanent army of professional soldiers, as distinguished from militia or volunteers.
• . See Standing army, under Army.

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• noun British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain
  

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• (Mil.), to pass round it, and take a position behind it or upon its side.

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• noun a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara; attacks small unprotected targets such as power pylons or oil pipelines or government buildings
  EGTK.
  

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• noun the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare
  Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; USA.
  

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• noun a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting
  Special Forces; U. S. Army Special Forces.
  

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• noun a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command; the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence
  United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; USACIL.
  

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• noun the northern army during the American Civil War
  

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• noun the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare
  Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; USA.
  

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• noun a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command; the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence
  United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; USACIL.
  

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• noun a specially trained elite unit of the United States Army
  

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• noun a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting
  Special Forces; U. S. Army Special Forces.
  

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• noun the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare
  Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; USA.
  

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• noun a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command; the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence
  United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; USACIL.
  

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• noun an army corps that was organized in World War II but is no longer a separate branch of the United States Army
  WAC.
  

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