CORPS


Meaning of CORPS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

diplomatic corps

esprit de corps

Marine Corps

press corps

the White House press corps

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

diplomatic

For all of its own bureaucratic strictures, the diplomatic corps had the sympathetic ears that Liang was looking for.

In Chongqing, Joe sought out contacts who could introduce him to the upper levels of the government and diplomatic corps .

■ NOUN

commander

All decisions had to be made by his two corps commanders .

He was one of their best corps commanders .

Khalid al Zayn Ali, the artillery corps commander , Maj.-Gen.

The correspondents of the press knew it long before the corps commanders were informed of the fact.

No army corps commander can ever be sure he has enough authority over his units to contemplate a coup.

On the Union side, General Meade assembled his corps commanders for a council of war.

officer

It has no officer corps and has never developed a uniform central system of recruitment and management.

The breakdown of discipline and morale in the professional officer corps is hardly a state secret.

A further difference between the army and the police was that the professional officer corps had the task of leading the revolution.

A veteran of the Navy officer corps .

The officer corps was small, young and inexperienced.

The officer corps , comprising about one-half of the men in uniform, is rapidly shrinking.

Educational qualifications for entry into the officer corps had been lower than for other comparable elements of the administration.

The officer corps had no real connection with the troops.

press

The invited press corps kept its distance from Holden, leaving him in peace to concentrate on his performance.

Remember when she invited the press corps in to sample her favorite cookie recipe?

The important visitors filed in after them, and then the members of the press corps .

It made it that much harder for the Washington press corps to drop in and snoop.

The spokesman returned in a state of even greater perplexity to confront the television cameras and assembled press corps .

But they were no ordinary members of the Washington press corps .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Marine Corps

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a ballet corps

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He was one of their best corps commanders.

He was the guy who developed an esprit de corps among the committee members.

I even felt this about the two trombones, who did not join the magnificent brass corps until its final chorale.

It has no officer corps and has never developed a uniform central system of recruitment and management.

She had first given her life to Him as a child, at the mercy seat in the local corps .

The breakdown of discipline and morale in the professional officer corps is hardly a state secret.

The surgeons of our corps selected for a hospital a large massive stone building....

To General von Zwehl the slaughter of his triumphant corps was particularly galling.

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