corps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++corps /kɔː $ kɔːr/ ●○○ noun (plural corps /kɔːz $ kɔːrz/) [countable] 1 PMa group in an army with special duties and responsibilities 特种部队；特殊兵种 the medical corps 医疗部队 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 美国陆军工程兵部队2 BOGROUP OF PEOPLEa group of people who work together to do a particular job 〔一起工作的〕一群人，一组人 the president’s press corps 总统记者团 the diplomatic corps 外交使团3. PMA technical a trained army unit made of two or more divisions (=groups of soldiers) 军〔军队编制单位，至少由两个师组成〕
Examples from the Corpus
corps• a ballet corps• He was one of their best corps commanders.• I even felt this about the two trombones, who did not join the magnificent brass corps until its final chorale.• He was the guy who developed an esprit de corps among the committee members.• She had first given her life to Him as a child, at the mercy seat in the local corps.• It has no officer corps and has never developed a uniform central system of recruitment and management.• The breakdown of discipline and morale in the professional officer corps is hardly a state secret.• The surgeons of our corps selected for a hospital a large massive stone building...• To General von Zwehl the slaughter of his triumphant corps was particularly galling.Origin corps (1500-1600) French Latin corpus; → CORPUScorps nounChinese
with an army in group a Corpus special
corps
corps /kɔː $ kɔːr/
noun (plural corps /kɔːz $ kɔːrz/) [countable]1. a group in an army with special duties and responsibilities:
the medical corps
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
2. a group of people who work together to do a particular job:
the President’s press corps
the diplomatic corps
3. technical a trained army unit made of two or more divisions (=groups of soldiers)
corps /kɔː $ kɔːr/
noun (plural corps /kɔːz $ kɔːrz/) [countable]1. a group in an army with special duties and responsibilities: 2. a group of people who work together to do a particular job:
3. technical a trained army unit made of two or more divisions (=groups of soldiers)