corps
noun, plural corps [kawrz, kohrz] /kɔrz, koʊrz/.
- a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone: the U.S. Marine Corps; corps of cadets.
- a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
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Contemporary Examples of corps
There were now five British corps in the British sector, and five American corps in the American sector.
It was now almost impossible to speak of individual divisions in relation to these actions, but only of corps.
He was deciding whether or not he wanted to stay in the Corps.
As a Teach For America 2011 corps member, I spent the last two years teaching 5th grade at a charter school in Harlem.
The next COAS will come from the shadowy group of a dozen corps commanders who run the Army.
Historical Examples of corps
They are the volunteers, the owner-drivers of the Corps, many of them men of wealth and title.
Ballads of a BohemianRobert W. Service
The first Maryland brigade as a corps de reserve on the road.
A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis MarionWilliam Dobein James
Had this corps been well trained the enemy must have been beaten.
A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis MarionWilliam Dobein James
There was, as well, a little excited undertalk from one corps to the other.
Camps, Quarters and Casual PlacesArchibald Forbes
They wished to have it established that their corps was not subject to the captain's authority.
The Life of Horatio Lord NelsonRobert Southey