corps /kɔː $ kɔːr/ BrE AmE noun ( plural corps /kɔːz $ kɔːrz/) [countable]
[ Date: 1500-1600 ; Language: French ; Origin: Latin corpus ; ⇨ ↑ corpus ]
1 . a group in an army with special duties and responsibilities:
the medical corps
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
2 . a group of people who work together to do a particular job:
the President’s press corps
the diplomatic corps
3 . technical a trained army unit made of two or more ↑ division s (=groups of soldiers)