military

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ foreign

▪

The country has twice been occupied by foreign militaries.

▪ national

▪ all-volunteer, professional, regular, volunteer

▪ powerful, strong

▪ large

▪ modern

▪ uniformed

▪ active, active-duty

VERB + MILITARY

▪ serve in

▪

I wasn't surprised to learn that he'd served in the military.

▪ enter, join

▪

Coghlan joined the military and served in the war.

▪ leave

▪

He left the military in 1993 and became a security guard.

▪ call in

▪

The government called in the military to deal with the riots.

▪ train

▪ deploy

▪ build

▪ maintain

▪

The country maintains a strong military purely for defence/defense.

▪ modernize, reform, transform

▪

efforts to transform the military into a 21st-century fighting force

▪ strengthen

▪ defeat

MILITARY + VERB

▪ fight

▪ operate

▪ seize power, take power

▪ kill sb

PREPOSITION

▪ among the military, in the military, within the military

▪

reports of growing discontent among the military

PHRASES

▪ a member of the military

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adj.

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