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. Mike Pence:

   President Trump communicated to him very clearly that the United States of America wants Turkey to stop the invasion, implement an immediate cease-fire and to begin to negotiate with Kurdish forces in Syria to bring an end to the violence.

2. Hassoumi Messaoudou:

   We thought they were reduced to making suicide attacks, now they have rebuilt their military forces. We are dealing with an army.

3. Lowell Milken:

   The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. Yes, recognition is a powerful motivator—to those who receive it as well as those who observe it.

4. Abdul Ahad:

   There are military helicopters in the sky and government forces everywhere, dead Taliban are on the streets, but there are still (militants) in some government buildings fighting Afghan forces.

5. Olivier Jankovec:

   The trend of decreasing freight traffic is hard to ignore. It reflects weakening economic data and contraction forces at play, not just in Europe but around the world. These will ultimately translate into lower passenger demand, adding to that, volatile oil prices, labour cost pressures and more consolidation should also lead airlines to be more cautious with capacity expansion. So pressures on passenger traffic are likely to come both from the demand and supply sides in 2019.