STANDING ARMY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A permanent army of paid soldiers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("standing army" is a kind of...):

army; ground forces; regular army (a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

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