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corps

[ kawr ]

noun

, plural corps [kawrz].
  1. Military.
    1. a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone: corps of cadets.

      the U.S. Marine Corps;

      corps of cadets.

    2. Also called army corps. 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.

    Synonyms: band, crew, force, team

  3. Printing. a Continental designation that, preceded by a number, indicates size of type in Didot points of 0.0148 inch (3.8 millimeters):

    14 corps.

  4. Obsolete. corpse.


corps

/ kɔː /

noun

  1. a military formation that comprises two or more divisions and additional support arms
  2. a military body with a specific function

    intelligence corps

    medical corps

  3. a body of people associated together

    the diplomatic corps



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Word History and Origins

Origin of corps1

First recorded in 1225–75; Middle English corps, cors, from Middle French, from Latin corpus “body”; corpse

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Word History and Origins

Origin of corps1

C18: from French, from Latin corpus body

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Example Sentences

Samantha Hogan is a staff writer at The Maine Monitor and a corps member for Report for America.

Samantha Hogan is a staff writer at The Maine Monitor and a Report for America corps member.

A nationwide tutoring corps could be rolled out by expanding Americorps, a federally funded national service program, Kraft and others suggest.

To be fair, Brady’s receiving corps was badly depleted for most of 2019, which had a measurable effect on his stats.

Without the lived experience of some of our audience and peers, we undoubtedly miss stories and don’t notice things a more representative reporting corps would catch.

The Navy and Marine Corps versions of the F-35 have differing configurations and rely on an external gun pod.

He then went back to his volunteer corps, which had formed when they did not yet have an ambulance.

Stone, according to Marine officials, served eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.

The line of questioning is a regular ritual conducted between Sen. Dianne Feinstein and the press corps.

It was now almost impossible to speak of individual divisions in relation to these actions, but only of corps.

The box of the diplomatic corps was just opposite us, and our gay little Mrs. F. sat in it dressed in white satin.

Car lesditz Sauvages prenans en main leurs arcs & fleches, vouloient emporter le corps.

The task of deceiving the Austrians was performed to perfection by Murat with the reserve cavalry and Lannes's corps.

During the rapid advance down the Danube on Vienna, the fifth corps continued in close support of Murat's cavalry.

When the main French columns were deployed, Lannes, with the remnant of his indomitable corps, had a brief period of rest.

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