Synonyms for Forces
forces

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1. forces

   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, host, legions, military, multitude, phalanx, soldiers, soldiery, troops

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1. List of paraphrases for "forces":

   troops, force, strengths, troop, strength, sil, fuerzas, powers, army, strong, military, units, soldiers, cf, obliges, power, armies, groups

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1. Dame Rebecca West:

   Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.

2. Jamal Rifi:

   The forces that pull us apart are increasing in strength, but they are nowhere as strong as the forces that pull us together.

3. Dan Quinn:

   He is the best solider I've ever served with, he's the reason why I joined the Special Forces regiment, was to work with soldiers like Charles Martland. ... All he wants to do is continue to serve our country with distinction.

4. Artemis Moshtaghian/CNN Heydari:

   I think people throughout the world have come to the conclusion that celebrating these cultural events is our duty, and if we don’t do that, we have pretty much lost to the forces that oppose.

5. Crispin Blunt:

   My office's calculation based on an in-service date of 2028 and a missile extension until 2060... the total cost is 167 billion pounds, the successor Trident program is going to consume more than double the proportion of the defense budget of its predecessor... The price required, both from the UK taxpayer and our conventional forces, is now too high to be rational or sensible.