military1 adjectivemilitary2 noun
militarymil‧i‧ta‧ry1 /ˈmɪlətəri $ -teri/ ●●● S2 W1 AWL adjective 
WORD ORIGINmilitary1
Origin:
1400-1500 French militaire, from Latin militaris, from miles ‘soldier’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- China reportedly planned to sell military equipment to Saudi Arabia.
- German military power was restricted after World War II.
- Peres said the military campaign would last as long as it took to secure the country's northern border.
- The President visited a military cemetery at Bitburg.
- Both were marauding, tribal war-leaders whose main aim was to bring military glory to themselves and their followers.
- It is now a museum of military history, but was once full of armed men and artillery.
- Schellenberg's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there.
- There is no indication that Wilfrid exercised any influence on Caedwalla's secular and military activities.
- They may petition for mercy from the prime minister in his capacity as military governor.
- We might borrow here from military jargon.
Longman Language Activatorused by or connected with the army, navy etc
used by or connected with the army, navy, or airforce, especially the army: · The President visited a military cemetery at Bitburg.· China reportedly planned to sell military equipment to Saudi Arabia.· Peres said the military campaign would last as long as it took to secure the country's northern border.
connected with or used by the army: · There's an American army base nearby.· An army jeep was parked outside their house.· Army officers have overthrown the government in a well planned coup d'état.
connected with or used by the navy: · His orders were to protect the port from naval attack.· a huge Chinese naval base· Stedman spent nine months recovering in a naval hospital.
connected with or used by the airforce: · The island's defences have been badly damaged by recent air attacks.· Ground forces will be backed up by NATO air power.
an attempt by the army to take control of the government an attempt by the army to take control of the government: · Tomorrow is the anniversary of the coup that brought a military dictatorship to power here nine years ago.coup/coup d'état against: · He led a successful coup against the government of Iraq.military coup: · In April 1974, a military coup took place in Lisbon.coup attempt/attempted coup: · The coup attempt was followed by police brutality, executions, and torture.· They smashed an attempted coup by the communists, leaving hundreds dead.abortive/failed coup (=one that does not succeed): · Peru offered refuge to officers who had taken part in the abortive coup.· The government imposed a state of emergency after the failed coup d'état.stage a coup (=attempt a coup): · The chief of the armed forces intended to take power by staging a coup d'état.
a successful attempt by the army to take control of their own country by removing the legal government: · The election was the first since the military takeover in 1980.· The economic crisis and the threat from separatist guerrillas led to a military takeover.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
The government has threatened to take military action if the rebels do not withdraw from the area. The United States is prepared to use military force to achieve its aims. a raid by European military forces (=the army, navy, or air force)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES America’s nuclear capability Japan seemed unlikely to risk military confrontation with Russia. Large-scale military manoeuvres are being carried out near the border. More and more men are refusing to do military service. a military offensive The work was carried out with military precision (=the work was done in a carefully planned and exact way).
The government has threatened to take military action if the rebels do not withdraw from the area. The United States is prepared to use military force to achieve its aims. a raid by European military forces (=the army, navy, or air force)· America is not ruling out military action against Iran.
· The military advantage had shifted towards the rebels.
· the president’s advisor on military affairs
· Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. economic and military aid.
· NATO has been the most successful military alliance in history.
· Beijing renewed its military assistance to North Korea.
· By this time, the political balance in the Cabinet had altered.
(=musicians who play music on military occasions)· a military band with their brass and their drums
America’s nuclear capability· The scandal ruined his political career.
(=where you learn to be an officer in the army)
· A large area was already under US military command.
· In the past they have tried to exchange territorial concessions for peace.
Japan seemed unlikely to risk military confrontation with Russia.· 28 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military convoy.
· The association deals with trade and economic cooperation.
· He seized power in a military coup in 1977.
· There have been several cases in which people have died in police custody.
· The president resigned following a series of military defeats.
· The project was a financial disaster.
(=the kind of strict discipline imposed in the army)· I hated the army and the routine of military discipline.
· The government exploited the situation for political ends.
· The sale of military equipment to the regime is banned.
· The committee has many political figures who are close to the military establishment.
· The generals decided to launch a military expedition to the region.
(=money that a government spends on the armed forces)· Military expenditure has been growing year on year.
· He served with the military forces during the war.
· The country’s military leader had seized power in a coup.
Large-scale military manoeuvres are being carried out near the border.· He uses a military metaphor to describe these women as ‘storming’ the castle of male power.
More and more men are refusing to do military service.· We have made good progress towards meeting our business objectives.
a military offensive· There have been attacks upon US military personnel.
· Air Force jets intercepted two military planes that had entered the no-fly zone.
· countries with little economic power
(=with a very strong army or navy)· Russia had become a naval power equal to Spain.
The work was carried out with military precision (=the work was done in a carefully planned and exact way).· This technology could be used for military purposes.
· Marlborough considered leading a military rebellion against the new king.
· The military regime arrested anyone who dared to speak against it.
· He was sent to prison for five years in 1933 for selling military secrets to Germany.
· The defeat represented a major political setback for the conservatives.
· This military success was achieved at a cost.
· The group insists that its bombs were directed against military targets.
· Military technology makes huge advances during wartime.
· Each country regarded the other as a major military threat.
· one of the General’s most famous military victories
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Churches were destroyed and thousands of Christians converged on a military academy and police stations in the town to seek protection.· They are trained in separate military academies, and their salaries are believed to be among the best in government service.· M is a former all-male military academy.· They all went to the same military academy and they were all in the same class.
· In relative terms, Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited.· On the one hand military action must be pursued with maximum efficiency, defined by military criteria.· The West's failure to seek authorisation from the council for military action was understandable but serious.· Both organizations demanded his return to power, while not endorsing military action.· In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges, points, and crossings had been blown up in military action.· Virtually everyone agrees that if there is to be any military action in Bosnia it must be accompanied by a congressional resolution.
· Yet on the other hand an agreement had been reached for mutual military aid as early as 1609.· Of the whole package, US$1,800 million was military aid.· Reagan was forced to announce that he was withdrawing his requests for additional military aid to El Salvador until after the elections.· Significantly, section five of the amendment allowed Congress to provide military aid, if necessary, to enforce its provisions.· In January 1947, the State Department began intensified planning to provide military aid.
· All single-engine, high performance, military aircraft fly with a degree of inherent risk.· Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed makes military aircraft, space systems, missiles and electronics systems.· This is not usual in civil aircraft systems though it is occasionally done in some military aircraft.· Government expenditures can reabsorb these resources in the production of guided missiles, military aircraft, and new schools and highways.· This gave me the chance to see many different military aircraft.· We invented the submarine and were the first to purchase a military aircraft.· Smiths make instruments for civil and military aircraft, and has already been hit hard by cuts in defence spending.· Pilots reported 23 near collisions between military aircraft and civilian airliners in 1990, but 14 in 1995.
· He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance.· Tuesday, the three countries were invited to join the Western military alliance in 1999.· The military alliance is offering a first prize of £130,000, as well as several runner-up prizes worth at least £60,000 each.· For all these years we had this huge military alliance designed to thwart the dreaded Commies.
· As for military assistance, it was nonexistent.· Soon he was turning to other foreign friends with desperate appeals for military assistance.· The ban on military assistance to the Contras remained in place.· According to the organisers, both races rely on military assistance, which could not be guaranteed in the present crisis.· The ceasefire would be guaranteed by international observers, and outside military assistance to either side would be prohibited.· He also suggested seeking technical and military assistance from abroad to deal with such problems as drug trafficking.· Since Mr Obasanjo's ascension, U.S. agencies have provided $ 109 million in political, economic and military assistance.
· Since that time, it has suffered repression from the government and military authorities.· Scores of buildings were requisitioned by the military authorities and had to be evacuated.· In contrast local military authorities would brook no delay.· Alsop, said the memo, is a civilian columnist and is not accepted as a military authority.· Outside, the military authorities began enforcing an undeclared night-time curfew.· All the incidents are still under investigation by civilian and military authorities.· During the currency of a lease a house was requisitioned by the military authorities.· On the other hand, military authorities reportedly aided the police and white citizens in disarming blacks to prevent further violence.
· In the 1960s Soviet specialists reinterpreted international law to bolster Moscow's declared opposition to foreign military bases.· Some convention delegates live near military bases that were closing or had closed.· Today sees a second order being flown out to the military base at Kaliningrad.· At one military base, one housing area had no sidewalks.· The 550-acre naval station at Treasure Island is one of 29 California military bases closed in 1993 by Congress.· New Times has contacted numerous military bases in the Southwest, but none claims the planes.
· And Britain's military capability-marginally useful to us during the Gulf war-has vanished with successive budget cuts.
· Much more than a military commander, Pompey appointed kings and created new Roman provinces.· They fled to Fort Gibson, where the military commander accorded them temporary protection until he could get instructions from Washington.· Senior military commanders have also quietly thrown their support behind Gen Bimantoro, according to political sources.· But in recent months top military commanders have dispatched a message of their own to the president.· Estrada's military commanders had deserted him.
· Nevertheless, national security issues and the incidence of military conflict remain highly significant.· While the government-in-exile headed by Sawyer proposed to send representatives to Monrovia to discuss its peace plan, the military conflict continued.· As stockpiles dwindled, the continuing impasse in negotiations rendered military conflict increasingly likely.· How much does intelligence really matter-outside military conflict?
· After years of military rule, they know that it usually means just one thing: a military coup.· Chun was the leader of the December 1979 military coup that vaulted a new generation to power.· René seized power in a military coup in June 1977.· Provoke a military coup against Hussein.· As the threat of a military coup increased he rallied to the Protectorate.· A military coup robbed him of three of his five years in office.· Guzmán, 44, had been legal adviser to Gen. Augusto Pinochet after the 1973 military coup.· Namphy's administration was itself overthrown on Sept. 18 in a further military coup led by Brig. -Gen.
· It was reported that he would be tried by a military court on corruption charges and for plotting an alleged coup.· Violators faced trial by closed military courts.· However the case was passed to the military courts who revoked the arrest order.· Polygraph evidence is not permitted in most criminal trials, including those in military courts.· The judgment was pronounced by a military court at Blida on May 2.· The gold fringe outlining the flag signifies the martial law administered by a military court, they say.· Another 76 other police and troops, including an army general, were absolved by the military court after a 15-week trial.· The government has announced that culprits in the scandal will be tried by military court.
· Everything is now in place for a rigged election that seems likely to usher in a military dictatorship.· Since 1980, 57 countries have replaced military dictatorships or other forms of one-party rule with democratic elections.· In Montevideo the Frente Amplio was founded as a coalition of diverse left currents against the military dictatorship.· Only military dictatorship would be capable of sustaining an ordered society in the aftermath of such a conflict.· The 1966 Constitution was suspended in 1973 and replaced by a military dictatorship.· Outside the town, the killing goes on, despite the transition in 1985 from military dictatorship to elected civilian government.· There is a new insistence on the illegitimacy of debts incurred by military dictatorships and other repressive regimes.· That is why soldiers called Metaxas and Papadopoulos have from time to time felt obliged to step forward and try a spot of military dictatorship.
· Its sheer size in one consideration, its huge stock of military equipment is another.· Pursue unarmed forces to retrieve military equipment.· The missiles were military equipment and confirmed that the army had descended into chaos.· Other firms are manufacturing radios, wired and fiber-optic telecommunications, military equipment and satellite receivers in San Diego.· Washington has since provided the island with military equipment.· The recent improvement in East-West relations must also make the market for military equipment less favourable.· In the army, specific amounts of military equipment were allocated to the company supply sections.
· Leaders of the military establishment do not, any more than their civilian colleagues, define their economy by its defects.· As that buildup occurred, the United States would have plenty of time to rebuild its military establishment after any sharp cutbacks.· In the United States the economic impact of the size of the post-war military establishment and budget has been tremendous.· Having made real progress in establishing democratic governments and free markets, they seek to professionalize their military establishments.· Political parties need to support the modern military establishment and upgrade the facilities of the army.· The last traces of independence within the military establishment were removed and the State's powers of coercion greatly enhanced.· Security is a high priority in all military establishments, and sentries are constantly on patrol, twenty-four hours a day.· A separate investigation showed significant excesses round the Aldermaston and Burghfield military establishments in Berkshire.
· Greater stability would give poorer nations the opportunity to reduce their own military expenditure.· Despite that military expenditure, there are many situations where the military is useless, says Edward Djerejian.· This, it can be argued. was due to popular pressure against high military expenditure.· Thus the crucial objectives were to limit military expenditure and to focus resources on domestic issues.· Of the republican budget 2.8 percent was voted for military expenditure.· The functionality of military expenditure resides for structuralists in the contribution it makes to the ideological hegemony of the capitalist system.· Similarly, much military expenditure may have a direct destabilising effect on a country's balance of payments.· Parliamentary revenues brought in about £300,000 between 1512 and 1517, only one-third of military expenditure.
· Their owners plan to fire them at an enemy's military forces rather than against cities or factories.· Within the former Soviet Union there remains a large military force.· Even as her military forces were strengthened and were winning the Cold War, her power in the marketplace shrank.· As Ahmed Bayturson, commander of the Kirghiz-Kazakh military forces, put it later:.· Y., said the country should maintain a strong standing military force.· We understand the concern of agencies which believe that dealing with military forces compromises their neutrality.· According to Chung, Roh saw the president within hours and strongly recommended against using military force.
· Linked to this is the upkeep of military forces and armaments for domestic reasons.· Members of the military forces must also fulfil a quota of work in the fields.· Even as her military forces were strengthened and were winning the Cold War, her power in the marketplace shrank.· Women hold only subordinate positions in the military forces.
· The military government is reported to have begun granting timber concessions to logging companies in areas opened up by oil company roads.· Hodge lamented the rift between the military government and the rightists after their earlier cooperation.· Nominal independence in 1960 brought a succession of inept, mostly military governments.· After some years of deliberating, the sharia court, not the military government, ruled that interest-free banking be implemented.· A series of military governments followed, with a radical left-wing regime being installed by Capt. Thomas Sankara in August 1983.· This is after the economic miracle, drastic military government, unserviceable debt.
· Incidents such as this one were commonly reported by military intelligence as evidence of black ties with radical groups.· They suggested Colonel Wong may have been detained because, as head of military intelligence, he failed to uncover the plot.· His background and knowledge had directed him to the branch of military intelligence centred on Northern Ireland.· Andreotti on Oct. 22 dismissed the chief of military intelligence, Adml.· One military intelligence soldier fired on a months ago claiming he felt his life was threatened.
· Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention?· Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued against military intervention there.· However, he continued to press the need for military intervention to support, he said, worker risings in the country.· Short of a hostile military intervention in Kosovo, there are other ways of bringing outside power to bear.· In recent decades, these three regions have been the focus of political, economic and military interventions by the great powers.· On the evidence, military intervention was perceived as a serious contingency in early 1981.· WAW-ITG is open to all women opposed to military intervention in the Gulf.· These consequences have to be faced because the governments of the West were understandably fearful about the cost of a military intervention.
· Apparently when the military junta was overthrown Garcia managed to get sent over here through a contact in the embassy.· A military junta had just overthrown the constitutional government and annulled a recently held presidential election.· Prior to July 1963, political power was held by a military junta.· Guei's announcement also has reportedly split the military junta that rules the country of 16 million.
· The new military leader confirmed that Venda's situation would be put to a referendum.· Naturally, the secret police and the military leaders were men, and they subjected their female prisoners to sexually specific tortures.· As a military leader, the prophet Joshua knew the importance of engaging the enemy, the preacher continues.· More than a dozen other former military leaders also are being investigated.· The military leader, Colonel Acheampong, wanted him to have a state funeral.· The military leader was returned to the post he first held from 1979 until 1991, when public discontent forced him out.· Washington, indeed, was both a statesman and a military leader.· The process began in January 1942 when Churchill and his military leaders came to Washington to discuss strategy.
· Obvious examples include inventors, medics and military men.· Franklin Roosevelt told friends he believed Alsop and Kintner could do him more good as columnists than as military men.· First the governor, a military man, demurred.· Colonel Lewis Pick, the architect of the tribes' inundation, was the embodiment of a no-nonsense military man.· On two occasions in 1992 military men tried to depose him.· In fort Worlft Even coming back he was a military man.· Liberal chums tell me that old, white, military men top the bill.· He was, in short, a military man.
· After an hour at Customs, a military officer took us to a restaurant and then to the barracks to sleep.· Opposition sources also claimed that a number of senior civil and military officers had recently been detained or executed for anti-government activities.· Franklin Delano, the son-in-law of William Astor; and a group of high-ranking military officers.· Some of the burgh politicians were themselves military officers.· The move caught top military officers and senior members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees by surprise.· This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup.· She was a secretary to military officers during that period.
· But military officials denied any such changes are being contemplated.· Hartzog acknowledged that some military officials question his vision.· On April 16 a leading Amal military official was assassinated in Beirut.· A number of lawmakers, independent experts, and former military officials have also expressed this view, including Indiana Sen.· Senior military officials, including Gen.· Their departure is apparently on schedule, military officials say.· Both Alexander and Nicholas were also extremely concerned to perpetuate noble preponderance among senior civil and military officials.
· Read in studio A military operation involving four thousand servicemen has ended with a dramatic finale over Salisbury Plain.· The rescue was launched early Friday with all the trappings of a crack military operation.· It had become difficult for him to imagine anything other than a successful outcome to his diplomatic and military operations.· But it is not clear whether the military operation which unfolded yesterday could have been organised in only four days.· This is not a military operation.
· As many as 200 civilians and an unknown number of military personnel died during heavy fighting between government and rebel forces.· Local, civil, and military personnel patrol or enclose ancient sites.· What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals?· Unlike the Navy, the Marines use military personnel to handle firefighting and many other tasks delegated to civilians.· Six truckloads of military police were sent by the army to clear out all military personnel so they would not be involved.
· The Special Investigation Branch of the military police is conducting more than 30 investigations into allegations of brutality.· More military police and an infantry division was called into action, and the riot was quickly ended the next day.· Civil police, who perform investigations, tend to be paid slightly less than military police, who patrol communities.· The lanky, 6-foot-4-inch captain coordinates the moves with military police, engineers, medics and rescue crews.· It was full of soldiers and of military police, and I was near despair.· Six truckloads of military police were sent by the army to clear out all military personnel so they would not be involved.· The ring's leader allegedly was Hildebrando Pascoal, a national congressman and military police colonel, who was arrested last September.
· In foreign affairs, he leaned heavily in the late 1970s on the United States as a counterweight to Soviet military power.· Only the military power conferred by industry could help them do this.· One might find the hugeness of the vessel interesting; it signifies military power on the move.· He is freed by Britomart, his betrothed, whose chastity gives her great military powers.· The primary danger of war was the irrational arms race and overly hostile relations between the major military powers.· Military planning, however, meant little without more military power.· This spelled the end of the Brezhnev doctrine, under which Soviet military power enforced the loyalty of its peripheral satellite states.
· However, this is a much larger military presence than during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
· There is still concern that a military regime would be reluctant to prosecute its own kind.· When the military regime cracked down, massacring hundreds, he escaped through the jungle.· Human-rights groups may carp at foreigners for dealing with an unpleasant military regime.· The political legitimacy of military regimes is frequently suspect and originates in their exclusiveness and monopoly of force.· Nowadays Darra has become an embarrassment to a military regime desperate to dam the flood of weapons flowing through it.· In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers' co-management.· Each of the half-dozen military regimes since then has eventually foundered on the strength of the miners.
· The exiled monarch had also called for an immediate end to military rule.· It also removed many of the restrictions imposed during the period of military rule between 1964 and 1985.· Existing political parties were banned, and a period of military rule followed.· The end of military rule in 1999 was cause for fresh optimism.· Existing political parties were banned; after a period of military rule a single-party system was established in 1969.· They advocated an immediate end to military rule and the holding of a national conference of all political forces.· The new government's policy document promised a new constitution to replace the one formulated under military rule in 1982.· After a period of military rule from March 1967 to April 1968 a republican Constitution was adopted in April 1971.
· Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors, on condition they reported annually for military service.· Franken also avoided military service with student deferments while at Harvard and, ultimately, a high lottery number.· It is true that the archbishop's lands were already overstocked with knights in relation to the military service due from them.· Hal was just twenty-five years old and fresh out of military service.· Although trained as a baker, Hilprecht had been on the dole since doing his military service.· The United States further reserves to these provisions with respect to individuals who volunteer for military service prior to age 18.· There has been a comparable fall in support for increasing military defence spending and compulsory military service.· The military services themselves have adapted remarkably well and are not less respected for it.
· The army preferred to keep order without the aid of unreliable military units.· That effort produced only modest reductions in uniformed personnel and military units and preserved all major procurement programs.· S.-sponsored military unit would apply to Joe if Chennault wanted him in his command.· After all, he had managed to defeat the system and was in sole command of a small military unit.· Each figure represents one of the military units that fought in the Battle of Baltimore in September of 1814.· Initial reports indicated hundreds had been killed when a military unit had been stoned by a hungry and unruly mob.· Medical appointments in military units were believed to provide useful experience to recent graduates or students, and were much in demand.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► army/navy/military etc brat► the military police
- Cell divisions of the mammalian egg are unlike those of lower animals where the planes of division appear with military precision.
- Due to their weight and size the ancient fossils were handled with military precision as they were placed inside the monstrous fire-breathing cart.
- It was clear that the Great Casterton defences had been planned and carried out in an unhurried manner and with military precision.
- Lott put together a whip organization that worked with military precision to deliver the votes.
- Then, with military precision, signs, flags and other outward markings will change.
- They had a disciplined system, and Captain Burrows ruled the household with military precision.
- After they have been examined, they will be buried with full military honours at one of the war graves.
- Cody was subsequently given a funeral with full military honours by the Aldershot garrison.
- He was buried with full military honours in Manchester.
- Memories of a man coming home for burial, with full military honours ... Such a very long time ago.
- The real leg was buried in the field of battle-with full military honours.
- The service was conducted with full military honours, ending in shots being fired over Paul's coffin.
- They are reburied with full military honours in the region's Commonwealth war graves.
- Administrative offices and on-campus police posts were damaged by stones and petrol bombs in three Tunis University faculties.
- But yesterday at the Hendaye border post, near Bayonne, lorries were passing freely without any form of control.
- Deng was made senior deputy premier and soon added party and military posts.
- However, he formally accepted the appointment on April 7 after resigning his military posts.
- In reality guerrilla action was largely indiscriminate with sporadic attacks on the occasional landlord, local official, or police post.
- The border post formalities are quickly completed.
- This commemorates the creation in 1829 of a political and military post to govern the islands.
- When she first arrived, she had thought the place as orderly as a military post.
- Doing jury service could be one of them.
- He envisaged combining farming and family life with military service in idyllic rural settlements.
- He was fined $ 250 and required to perform community service.
- Like the House measure, the Senate bill requires public housing residents to contribute eight hours of community service a month.
- Normally feudal grants were made within the Patrimony and the Papal State in return for military service.
- The offer included a $ 250 fine, community service and domestic violence counseling.
- What will be attempted is a sketched framework for the illumination of community service profiles.
WORD FAMILYnounmilitancymilitantthe militarymilitiamilitarismmilitaristadjectivemilitarymilitantmilitaristicmilitarizedadverbmilitantlymilitarily
1used by, involving, or relating to the army, navy, or air force: a military helicopter military equipment The government has threatened to take military action if the rebels do not withdraw from the area. The United States is prepared to use military force to achieve its aims. a raid by European military forces (=the army, navy, or air force)2with military precision if you do something with military precision, you do it in a very organized and exact way: The trips are planned with military precision.—militarily adverb: Europe may have to intervene militarily if the crisis worsens.military1 adjectivemilitary2 noun
militarymilitary2 ●●○ AWL noun EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- First, there is the degree to which the military is isolated from the rest of society.
- The military failed to respond to the offer.
- The military is the only one who really has this equipment...
- There were months of interrogations, torture and repression as the military tightened its grip on the country.
- Those arrested by the military were subsequently released without trial.
- War and the military had become unpopular in academic and intellectual circles.
- Western diplomats believe the role of the well-armed Yugoslav military will prove pivotal in deciding whether all-out war erupts in Bosnia.
Longman Language Activatorthe army, navy etc
a large organized group of people trained to fight on land in a war: the army: · Units of the Nigerian army were quickly sent to the border.in the army: · My sons are both in the army.raise an army (=collect and organize an army to fight a battle): · In 1066 William the Conqueror raised an army and invaded England.
the part of a country's military forces that is trained for fighting a war at sea: the navy: · It was an important battle for the navy.in the navy: · My father was in the navy during the war.
also air force American the part of a country's military forces that is trained for fighting a war in the air: · The French have a very powerful airforce.the airforce: · The airforce played a huge part in the Kosovo conflict.in the airforce: · My brother and sister are both in the airforce.
especially American the army, navy, and air force of a country: · The military may be sent in to deal with the riots.· a company that supplies electronic equipment to the military
the army, navy, and airforce of a country: · A new government minister is now responsible for the armed forces.· Measures will be taken to help modernize the country's armed forces.
groups of soldiers from a country's army, navy, and airforce: · The town was captured by Italian forces under the command of General Ciano.· The United States placed its forces in the region on alert.· Ground forces were wiped out by the air attack.
also the service American the army, navy, and airforce - use this especially when talking about someone having a job in the army etc: be in the service(s): · Camp Lejune was the first place I was stationed when I was in the service.go into the services: · The family has a tradition of going into the services.
a specially trained part of the US armed forces: · A special force of 500 US Marines has been sent to the area.· I have a 25-year-old brother who's in the Marine Corps.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY America’s nuclear capability Japan seemed unlikely to risk military confrontation with Russia. Large-scale military manoeuvres are being carried out near the border. More and more men are refusing to do military service. a military offensive The work was carried out with military precision (=the work was done in a carefully planned and exact way).
· The military is helping with the relief effort.
· The military are helping with the relief effort.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· America is not ruling out military action against Iran.
· The military advantage had shifted towards the rebels.
· the president’s advisor on military affairs
· Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. economic and military aid.
· NATO has been the most successful military alliance in history.
· Beijing renewed its military assistance to North Korea.
· By this time, the political balance in the Cabinet had altered.
(=musicians who play music on military occasions)· a military band with their brass and their drums
America’s nuclear capability· The scandal ruined his political career.
(=where you learn to be an officer in the army)
· A large area was already under US military command.
· In the past they have tried to exchange territorial concessions for peace.
Japan seemed unlikely to risk military confrontation with Russia.· 28 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military convoy.
· The association deals with trade and economic cooperation.
· He seized power in a military coup in 1977.
· There have been several cases in which people have died in police custody.
· The president resigned following a series of military defeats.
· The project was a financial disaster.
(=the kind of strict discipline imposed in the army)· I hated the army and the routine of military discipline.
· The government exploited the situation for political ends.
· The sale of military equipment to the regime is banned.
· The committee has many political figures who are close to the military establishment.
· The generals decided to launch a military expedition to the region.
(=money that a government spends on the armed forces)· Military expenditure has been growing year on year.
· He served with the military forces during the war.
· The country’s military leader had seized power in a coup.
Large-scale military manoeuvres are being carried out near the border.· He uses a military metaphor to describe these women as ‘storming’ the castle of male power.
More and more men are refusing to do military service.· We have made good progress towards meeting our business objectives.
a military offensive· There have been attacks upon US military personnel.
· Air Force jets intercepted two military planes that had entered the no-fly zone.
· countries with little economic power
(=with a very strong army or navy)· Russia had become a naval power equal to Spain.
The work was carried out with military precision (=the work was done in a carefully planned and exact way).· This technology could be used for military purposes.
· Marlborough considered leading a military rebellion against the new king.
· The military regime arrested anyone who dared to speak against it.
· He was sent to prison for five years in 1933 for selling military secrets to Germany.
· The defeat represented a major political setback for the conservatives.
· This military success was achieved at a cost.
· The group insists that its bombs were directed against military targets.
· Military technology makes huge advances during wartime.
· Each country regarded the other as a major military threat.
· one of the General’s most famous military victories
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Unless the Soviet military intervenes, self-determination must surely lead to reunification.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► army/navy/military etc brat► the military police
the military the military forces of a country SYN the forces: - a company that supplies electronic equipment to the military
- The military may be sent in to deal with the riots.
- The military took over when police were unable to stop the rioting.
- After they have been examined, they will be buried with full military honours at one of the war graves.
- Cody was subsequently given a funeral with full military honours by the Aldershot garrison.
- He was buried with full military honours in Manchester.
- Memories of a man coming home for burial, with full military honours ... Such a very long time ago.
- The real leg was buried in the field of battle-with full military honours.
- The service was conducted with full military honours, ending in shots being fired over Paul's coffin.
- They are reburied with full military honours in the region's Commonwealth war graves.
- Administrative offices and on-campus police posts were damaged by stones and petrol bombs in three Tunis University faculties.
- But yesterday at the Hendaye border post, near Bayonne, lorries were passing freely without any form of control.
- Deng was made senior deputy premier and soon added party and military posts.
- However, he formally accepted the appointment on April 7 after resigning his military posts.
- In reality guerrilla action was largely indiscriminate with sporadic attacks on the occasional landlord, local official, or police post.
- The border post formalities are quickly completed.
- This commemorates the creation in 1829 of a political and military post to govern the islands.
- When she first arrived, she had thought the place as orderly as a military post.
- Doing jury service could be one of them.
- He envisaged combining farming and family life with military service in idyllic rural settlements.
- He was fined $ 250 and required to perform community service.
- Like the House measure, the Senate bill requires public housing residents to contribute eight hours of community service a month.
- Normally feudal grants were made within the Patrimony and the Papal State in return for military service.
- The offer included a $ 250 fine, community service and domestic violence counseling.
- What will be attempted is a sketched framework for the illumination of community service profiles.
He was never tempted to join the military.in the military My brother is in the military. The military was sent in to break up the demonstration.GRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?• The military is usually followed by a singular verb: · The military is helping with the relief effort.• In British English, you can also use a plural verb: · The military are helping with the relief effort.Grammar guide ‒ NOUNS