Synonym: army corps. Similar words: corpse, esprit de corps, scorpio, corporal, scorpion, corpuscle, corporeal, corporate. Meaning: [kɔː] n. 1. an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support 2. a body of people associated together.
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91. In 1931, the Corps of Engineers finally pronounced the construction of a concrete dam at Grand Coulee feasible.
92. In 1953, the Army Corps of Engineers finished the job by building a flood control channel.
93. Brigadier-General Dan Harel, commander of the Artillery Corps, was appointed head of an army board of inquiry.
94. The Peace Corps provided an opportunity for an escape, a chance for further exploration, a moratorium before final commitment.
95. A single Marine Corps troop carrier costs more than one billion.
96. Jones drummed old-time learning into his chosen corps and, in March 1937, Richard sat the scholarship and passed it.
97. Volunteers with technical qualifications were accepted for the Engineers, Ordnance and the Service Corps.
98. My first political awareness of oppression was when I was discharged from the nursing corps of the army over lesbianism.
99. The ground crews within the Army Air Corps are generally the unsung heroes behind everything we do.
100. She wrote a letter telling him that the Marine Corps had given him a dishonorable discharge.
101. There have been about 80 hazing incidents in the Marine Corps in the last three to five years, Cohen said.
102. The officer corps was reduced by 50%, with many officers retiring on full pay.
103. The invited press corps kept its distance from Holden, leaving him in peace to concentrate on his performance.
104. Six alien companies of the Pioneer Corps accompanied the allied invasion.
105. His rise to Divisional, then Corps Commander followed in rapid succession.sentencedict.com/corps.html
106. Dozens of professionals and a corps of volunteers, with all the equipment they needed, stood by to treat twelve patients.
107. The Corps was a know-how, can-do outfit, possibly the best of all the outfits that came to town.
108. No army corps commander can ever be sure he has enough authority over his units to contemplate a coup.
109. Indeed, its unspoiled days ended long before the corps turned a shovelful of dirt.
110. The rock retaining wall built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the mid-1930s is to be restored.
111. A further difference between the army and the police was that the professional officer corps had the task of leading the revolution.
112. If the project were determined not to damage critical habitat, then the Corps could move forward.
113. Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
114. The press corps has begun to praise him with faint damns.
115. To General von Zwehl the slaughter of his triumphant corps was particularly galling.
116. But they were no ordinary members of the Washington press corps.
117. The important visitors filed in after them, and then the members of the press corps.
118. These days, the Marine Corps is very choosy about who joins.
119. I was travelling with President Carter's press corps in 1980.
120. During the last year before her furlough one hundred and seventeen new soldiers had been sworn in at the Howard corps.
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