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. Jeb Bush:

   We don't have a strategy right now, we have a series of tactics, reacting to whatever's going on on the ground. That doesn't mean we have to have combat troops in harm's way. But I think ... in concert with other countries, and certainly in an effort to try to restrict Iranian influence in Iraq, that we can play a constructive role.

2. The US:

   There's no way also that the The US or any other foreign government can' singlehandedly' engage in a battle like Marawi because the Philippine Constitution forbids it, foreign troops and foreign military may help by providing intel, logistics, weapons but they can't, technically, actively participate in combat.

3. Girl Scouts:

   When cookies are purchased through a third-party seller, Girl Scout troops are deprived of proceeds that fund critical programming throughout the year.

4. Matt Zeller:

   The new law requires that they get testimony from some who saw them on military base for work, but understand, it’s been at least three years and many troops have returned home.

5. Fred Fleitz:

   The Saudis see a very dangerous situation -- there are the Houthi rebels, who are a Shiite group which may be becoming an Iranian proxy, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the most dangerous Al Qaeda franchise ... there is a question over whether they can get together an Arab coalition willing to send in ground troops, we’ve seen a slow motion civil war there for many years and now the pace is accelerating … Yemen is really dissolving into a kaleidoscope of conflicting factions.