Synonyms for troops
troops

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1. troopsnoun

   Synonyms:
   soldiers

2. troopsnoun

   military personnel in uniform

   There are 10,000 troops in Iraq.

   Synonyms:
   soldiers

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1. troops

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

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1. military personnel, soldiery, troopsnoun

   soldiers collectively

   Synonyms:
   serviceman, man, military personnel, soldiery, military man

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1. • Force
   • Military

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1. troopsnoun

   Synonyms:
   throngs, gangs

2. troopsnoun

   Synonyms:
   army, soldiers, forces, legions, armed force, military force, body of troops

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1. List of paraphrases for "troops":

   forces, soldiers, troop, soldier, contingents, force, quotas, army, troupes, military, servicemen, contingent, units, armies, contingentes, men, personnel

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1. Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

   Even though German deaths also exceeded well over 10,000 in the battle that stretched deep into January, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier took special time to thank the U.S. troops. On this day, we Germans would like to thank the United States of America. The American armed forces, together with their allies, liberated Europe and they also liberated Germany. We thank you.

2. Andrei Kolesnikov:

   But it is obvious that the war is dragging on, and Putin's plan is not getting any clearer. But President Vladimir Putin must make some symbolic or practical gesture, everyone here is scared that President Vladimir Putin will announce a partial or full mobilization. Although such a measure might prove unpopular : the Russians have become militarists, but they are lazy militarists, sofa troops.

3. Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3:

   Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

4. Dick Peters:

   I think the reason I'd go with Bush is because I think he has good family values and I look at the way his brother there still interacts with the troops coming home and still goes out to the hospitals to visit. But yet he has kept his nose out of everybody's business.

5. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius:

   We consider that Mr Bashar al-Assad in the end cannot govern Syria and we also consider it impossible that the Iranians, who have troops on the ground even if they say they are military advisers, stay in Syria permanently.