lance corporal
noun
an enlisted person ranking between private first class and corporal.
lance corporals
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pluralof lance corporal.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Aircraft engineers can get £30,000 if they sign up for a further three years, with privates and lance corporals eligible for £8,000 for four years.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
In art as in life, it is not that these lance corporals are unwilling to train or to fight.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
Brad Kasal, bloodied but unbowed, was being helped from house-to-house fighting in Fallouja by lance corporals Chris Marquez and Dane Shaffer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2014
The troops sit talking for hours in close tents and stifling bunkers, young men who hope, because they are lance corporals and gunnery sergeants, that they are above whimpering.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only the Number Ones, lance corporals, of each gun went in ahead, the guns and remainder of the section to come up after dark.
From The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride
