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. John Kennedy:

   Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, Can you please help me get planes ? Can you please help me get surface-to-air missiles ? I'm not asking for American planes, or pilots, or troops – President Biden response is President Biden response as President Biden response always is :' I'll get back to you in three to five business days'.

2. Abba Hassan:

   Niger and Chadian planes are conducting surveillance at the moment in town and troops on the ground are combing through the streets.

3. Carol Collier:

   As long as we have a mission there, I am not opposed to troops being deployed, but I worry that we are unnecessarily stressing the same people over and over by repeated deployments, the draft isn't a popular idea, but as Americans, we all should do our part if we are going to keep troops deployed.

4. Boris Johnson:

   Today I have agreed with the Secretary General a package of support to strengthen further our collective security, sending troops, planes and ships to defend NATO from north to south.

5. Michael Zehaf-Bibeau:

   ?To those who are involved and listen to this movie, this is in retaliation for Afghanistan and because (Canadian Prime Minister Stephen) Harper wants to send his troops to Iraq.