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Definitions in simple English

military Adjective

— If something is military, it is a characteristic of people in the armed forces. Sick soldiers go to the military hospital. — If something is military, it is about armed forces such as the army, marines, navy, or air force. — If something is military, it has to do with war. — If something is military, it has to do with armies and ground troops.

military Noun

— A military is armed forces. — The military is the United States armed forces in general. It's not the job of the military to make policy.

military

— adjective of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare military law — adjective characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military military uniforms — adjective associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians military police — noun (= military machine) the military forces of a nation their military is the largest in the region the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker

Synonyms military synonyms

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Topics military topics

What do people use military to talk about?

Social behavior Conflict War

Military organization

What words refer to all of the soldiers of a country?

the military the armed forces
What words refer to a military organization?

military organization branch of the military the services
What words describe something belonging to the military?

military

Social behavior Conflict

Hairstyle

What words refer to the style of a man's hair?

blocked buzz crew cut military cut long shaved tonsure

Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building

What kinds of buildings are used by the military?

military base guardhouse barracks fort blockhouse bomb shelter watchtower lookout bunker

Examples military examples

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Simple sentences

A military operation is under way.

The site is used for military purposes.

There is a military base near here.

He is exempt from the military service.

In reports in America, guerrilla resistance by the Iraq military is called terrorism.

Myanmar is ruled by a military dictatorship.

A general is a high-ranking military officer.

It is an act of treason to sell military secrets to your country's enemies.

Soldiers go on patrol in a military vehicle.

He wanted to be a great military leader.

He said military force would not be needed.

The two men were tried by a military court.

Great Britain has two military bases in Cyprus.

Military toys are abundant in the shops.

Military discipline is literally rigid.

They intended to increase the military budget.

Our diplomacy and our military strategy were clearly in contradiction.

The United States spends more on the military than all other countries combined!

This article analyzes both the benefits and the drawbacks of reducing military spending.

Not far from the house was a military hospital.

Compulsory military service exists in Turkey.

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She is a military Marko.

The military probably will have to contact us.

Are you military?

I have to call the military base.

Military intervention in an open area.

You're being pursued by the military, aren't you?

Even if you say the military, it's only a small portion of it.

Private Kururugi Suzaku of the district 11 military, case 1075, concerning the suspicion of Prince Clovis' murder.

Zero! Return that unit! That machine is the property of our military.

Beset by economic crises and by environmental fears, the West today is also waking up to a growing Eastern challenge to its political and military supremacy.

The arrival on the royal square of Bangkok,.. during the military exercises of the Amazons.

And then the brutality of the military authorities in Odessa was answered with the battleship's shells.

The military rebellion backed by Hitler and Mussolini seeks to bring back the privileges of the rich.

Everywhere we find these little semi-military upstarts robbing and fighting.

Don't forget, Hubert, that the emir is a prophet as well as a military man and a poet.

It will provoke colonist and military opposition.

The Emperor declared it an Arab Kingdom, a European colony and a military camp.

Get the U.S. military in the loop, -and track them down.

Those guys are the military men.

Answering the call of the military revolutionary Committee.

The BoIsheviks organized a military plot against the legitimate authorities.

By the name of the military revolutionary Committee I declare the provisional Government overthrown.

I didn't know that the military was quite so busy.

In the name of the French Republic, this court finds the accused, Mata Hari guilty of espionage and of communicating military information to the enemy.

Therefore, this said court, by virtue of articles 2o5, 6 and 7 of the military code condemns this woman to be shot to death by rifle fire.

Your passport says nothing about your military rank.

That is a place that officers from each country will have a contest of their military strength.

The spokesperson for the UN military meeting as well as the local Governor welcomed them.

But no matter what, they are still South America's best military power.

To compete against them. Oh, how about Netherlands. That's right, although they are very tall their teamwork is also very good, but they can't even get into the top thirty with their military capabilities.

They have a population of 1 billion. In addition, they have good relationships with neighboring countries recently, and they are also currently expanding their military force.

Egypt has the best military power in Africa.

It's a US military strategy.

At 9am this morning, the military operations power has already been handed over to the combined Korean-American headquarters.

Do we have control of the military?

If you meet any resistance, mobilize the military!

We'll invoke the right of command and place the military under President Boon.

Then, Corpus Christi - the greatest religious and military celebration of the year.

Gentleman, I'm afraid Andre Joquin's military record is rather bad.

Upon the conclusion of the American Civil War. Napoleon withdrew his military support. leaving Maximilian to the mercy of his rebellious subjects.

News and current affairs

And, perversely, American neo-conservatives have transformed the internationalism of the old left by seeking to impose a democratic world order by US military force.

Military force has played a role as well.

Military reform has been reversed.

In addition, the EU should create a small but effective military force (say, 5,000 troops) to back up the common body's decisions.

In comparison to the cost of military intervention and peacekeeping, the financial costs here are ridiculously low.

But paradoxically, it may also contain an element of forgetfulness, because it tends to conceal the fact that liberation required a military defeat.

George W. Bush is obsessed with the war on terrorism, especially with the military response to terrorism.

In other words, US foreign policy spending is thirty times more focused on the military than on building global prosperity, global public health, and a sustainable environment.

Focusing on terrorism to the exclusion of other issues, and emphasizing the military response to it, will not bring prosperity and peace, or even a significant reduction in the number of attacks.

The Americans want full EU membership for Turkey--a longstanding NATO member and close American ally--while Europeans complain about the Turkish military's domestic political role.

The paradox is that, by maintaining a political distance and thus limiting Turkey's options, Europe may end up reinforcing Turkey's status as a military outpost of the US.

Turkey's refusal to grant the Americans access to military bases on its territory effectively ruled out a northern front in the war.

Likewise, other elements of Turkey's secular establishment, including the President and the military leadership, either opposed or were lukewarm, at best, to the idea of war in Iraq.

Turkey's military initially remained silent on the issue, uncharacteristically watching the civilian political process unfold.

With lucrative deals at stake for the big-ticket products that drive the French economy - military hardware, nuclear power plants, and Airbus planes - France has a strong interest in a successful summit in India.

Indeed, the opposite is true. Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks: plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.

The answer, ultimately, doesn't lie with any civilian use of nuclear energy, but first and foremost with its military applications.

Putin's lawyers will reverse that decision; the party will have cells or committees in every factory, corporation, military unit, university department, etc.

Now the world is suddenly asking whether Burma (Myanmar), after six decades of military dictatorship, has embarked on a genuine political transition that could end the country's pariah status.

In the mid-1990's, and again in 2002-2003, reconciliation between Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) and the military junta seemed to be in the offing.

Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right-wingers, the iron-fisted Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.

Indeed, as a pillar of export-oriented modernity, Park Chung-hee was once lionized as the archetype of a modernizing political leadership in military-authoritarian states.

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