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What is an army?

What is an army? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
    1. Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.
    2. (often capitalized) Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).
  2. The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
  3. (figuratively) A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
  4. (figuratively) A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
  5. (figuratively) Any multitude.
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Hughey was left with the prospect of fighting for an army waging a war that he believed was illegal, or running.
The inner life of a nation is linked with the modern mass army in a way it could not have been with the absolutist armies of the earlier period.
The southern army began its retreat to Virginia late on 4 July, its wagon train of wounded soldiers stretching for seventeen miles.
He wakes his comrade, who stirs and stolidly puts on his boots, army shirt, cap, gun.
Here status preservation came through absorption into the expanding state bureaucracy and army.
The army of arthropods slurped bits of organic material out of the muck, then ejected balls of it like so many wads of chewing tobacco.

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