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corps

  [kawr, kohr]
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–noun, plural corps [kawrz, kohrz] .
1. Military.
a. a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone: the U.S. Marine Corps; corps of cadets.
b. a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
2. a group of persons associated or acting together: the diplomatic corps; the press corps.
3. Printing. a Continental designation that, preceded by a number, indicates size of type in Didot points of 0.0148 in. (3.8 mm): 14 corps.
4. Obsolete. corpse.
Origin:
1225–75; ME corps, cors < MF < L corpus body; see corpse

Synonyms:
2. team, force, crew, band.
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corps   (kôr, kōr)   
n.   pl. corps (kôrz, kōrz)

    1. A separate branch or department of the armed forces having a specialized function.

    2. A tactical unit of ground combat forces between a division and an army commanded by a lieutenant general and composed of two or more divisions and auxiliary service troops.

  2. A body of persons acting together or associated under common direction: the press corps. See Synonyms at band2.


[French, from Old French, from Latin corpus, body; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

corps 
c.1275, cors "body," from O.Fr. cors, from L. corpus "body" (see corporeal). The -p- was re-inserted 15c., following Fr., based on L. original. Sense in Eng. evolved from "dead body" (13c.) to "live body" (14c.) to "body of citizens" (15c.) to "band of knights" (1464). The modern military sense (1704) is from Fr. corps d'armée (16c.), picked up in Eng. during Marlborough's campaigns.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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