corps
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
corps /kɔː/
▶noun (pl. corps /kɔːz/)
- 1 a main subdivision of an army in the field, consisting of two or more divisions.
■ a branch of an army assigned to particular work.
- 2 a group of people engaged in a particular activity: the press corps.
– origin C16: from Fr., from L. corpus ‘body’.
'corps' also found in these Oxford entries:
Anzac
- ATC
- brigadier general
- CD
- corps de ballet
- coryphée
- diplomatic corps
- esprit de corps
- marine
- military police
- OTC
- RAC
- RAMC
- RAOC
- RCS
- RFC
- ROC
- ROTC
- sapper
- WAC
- WRAC
- Zouave
