Meaning of military in English

military

adjective

/ˈmɪl.ɪ.tər.i/ us

/ˈmɪl.ə.ter.i/

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relating to or belonging to the armed forces:

military intervention Support in Europe for foreign military interventions is low.

military target Many people from the area said the bombs were hitting civilian, rather than military targets.

military forces Our military forces are the best-trained anywhere in the world.

military uniform

typical of the armed forces:

military precision The operation was planned and run with military precision.

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The minister argued against making cuts in military spending.
The military expedition was made up of 100 officers and men.
Spain was an important military power in the 16th century.
The general made some bellicose statements about his country's military strength.
Over 100 military vehicles paraded through the capital in a show of strength.

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The armed forces generally

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militarily

military

noun

/ˈmɪl.ɪ.tər.i/ us

/ˈmɪl.ə.ter.i/

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the armed forces of a particular country:

The matter is under investigation by the militaries of both countries.

A US military spokesman said that five soldiers had been killed.

the military

the armed forces:

The military has opposed any cuts in defence spending.

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The president relied on the coercive powers of the military.
Disagreements about defence cuts have opened up deep divisions within the military.
They promised that individuals could live freely without fear of reprisal from the military.
The military wants to allow only a sanitized report of the incident to become public.
The president was widely regarded as the tool of the military.

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The armed forces generally

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(Definition of military from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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military

adjective [ not gradable ]

/ˈmɪl·ɪˌter·i/

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relating to or belonging to the armed forces:

military spending/intervention/forces

A military academy is a place where soldiers are trained to become officers.

A military academy (or school) is also a private school or college that expects obedience to rules, has uniforms, and is generally run like the armed forces.

military

noun [ U ]

/ˈmɪl·ɪˌter·i/

the armed forces of a country:

My Dad was in the military.

(Definition of military from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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The first three chapters raise initial concerns about using private violence in place of state militaries.

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Moreover, a penchant for intervention in the economy cannot be used to explain the military's enthusiasm for industrial promotion.

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Her assessment of the growing tensions with the army, especially around the military's control and misuse of international assistance following the earthquake of 1976 is also informative.

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In ancient days militaries were necessary.

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The only exception remained the military's link with petroleum, which throughout remained a critical source of funding for the military's projects in the oil boom of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Both phases reflected the intransigence of defeated militaries, and both entailed the kind of suffering for civilian populations which we can barely appreciate, sixty-odd years on.

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The most important contribution of the work, then, is that elected civilian regimes have to adhere to democratic norms and standards if they are to maintain control over their militaries.

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Political intrusion compounded the military's woes.

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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries politicians, engineers, business communities and militaries incessantly pushed infrastructure projects to forge polities, economies and societies, or to prepare for war.

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In fact, this literature rests on a structural-functionalist foundation according to which change in the army can be explained in terms of the military's adaptation and responsiveness to social pressures.

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The military's goal was to prevent the growing polarization between youth educated in secular and religious schools by retaining children from "traditional" backgrounds in the secular-track school system.

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However, the failure of the military's coup attempt in 1991 and the attempt to wrest power in 1992 meant that new avenues for political legitimacy had to be found.

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The military's war machine was woefully defective.

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I am thinking in terms of the military's access to communications and transport and its inbuilt facilities for the supply of medicine and food.

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Of the 483 independent would-be candidates only 55 received the military's permission to stand.

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What is the pronunciation of military?

B2,C1

Translations of military

in Chinese (Traditional)

軍事的, 軍用的, 富有軍隊特點的…

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