Synonyms for standing army
stand·ing army

Princeton's WordNet

1. standing armynoun

   a permanent army of paid soldiers

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1. • Army
   • Military

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1. Edward Everett Hale:

   Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

2. Justice Antonin Scalia:

   [T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

3. United States:

   It's a country that has the second largest global defense budget, the largest standing army of ground forces, the third largest air force in the world, a navy of 300 ships -- including more than 60 subs -- all of this is in the process of being modernized and upgraded.

4. Mike Turner:

   We have a standing army that is atrophying and a world more dangerous than it’s ever been.

5. Thomas Jefferson:

   The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.