Synonyms for troops
troops

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1. troopsnoun

   Synonyms:
   soldiers

2. troopsnoun

   military personnel in uniform

   There are 10,000 troops in Iraq.

   Synonyms:
   soldiers

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1. troops

   An army is an organized body of men armed for war, ordinarily considerable in numbers, always independent in organization so far as not to be a constituent part of any other command. Organization, unity, and independence, rather than numbers are the essentials of an army. We speak of the invading army of Cortes or Pizarro, tho either body was contemptible in numbers from a modern military standpoint. We may have a little army, a large army, or a vast army. Host is used for any vast and orderly assemblage; as, the stars are called the heavenly host. Multitude expresses number without order or organization; a multitude of armed men is not an army, but a mob. Legion (from the Latin) and phalanx (from the Greek) are applied by a kind of poetic license to modern forces; the plural legions is preferred to the singular. Military is a general word for land-forces; the military may include all the armed soldiery of a nation, or the term may be applied to any small detached company, as at a fort, in distinction from civilians. Any organized body of men by whom the law or will of a people is executed is a force; the word is a usual term for the police of any locality.

   Synonyms:
   armament, army, array, force, forces, host, legions, military, multitude, phalanx, soldiers, soldiery

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1. military personnel, soldiery, troopsnoun

   soldiers collectively

   Synonyms:
   serviceman, man, military personnel, soldiery, military man

Matched Categories

1. • Force
   • Military

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1. troopsnoun

   Synonyms:
   throngs, gangs

2. troopsnoun

   Synonyms:
   army, soldiers, forces, legions, armed force, military force, body of troops

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1. List of paraphrases for "troops":

   forces, soldiers, troop, soldier, contingents, force, quotas, army, troupes, military, servicemen, contingent, units, armies, contingentes, men, personnel

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How to use troops in a sentence?

1. John Bolton:

   We dont think the Turks ought to undertake military action thats not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the United States, at a minimum so they dont endanger our troops.

2. Alain Nyamitwe:

   This U.N. resolution is fine for us since it takes into account everything we have been saying, we have always been open to experts but never to sending of peacekeeping troops in Burundi.

3. Robert English:

   Eventually, the loss of troops, the loss of foreign investment, the loss of public support, the economic drain — all those are facts that he can't ignore indefinitely, but I think he's resisting that because he's living … in a world of slanted intelligence and illusions and utopian ideas about a return of the Russian Empire that will take some time to crumble away. And he's resisting it mightily, still trying to come up with that military victory, even as everyone else can see it grinding to a halt.

4. Piet Chielens:

   There are a number of local attacks which never make it into the history books, but which all cause a great loss among the troops.

5. Ali Nur:

   This is a great shame and it will be difficult for the residents to trust the Somali government and the AU troops, we ask the government and AMISOM to send their troops as soon as possible.