military
Adjective:
- Relating to or characteristic of armed forces: Describes anything associated with, performed by, or intended for the army, navy, air force, or other armed services, as opposed to civilian life.
- Involving soldiers or warfare: Characteristic of soldiers, their profession, or the conduct of war.
Noun (often used with "the"):
- The armed forces of a nation: The collective institution or organization comprising a country's army, navy, air force, and sometimes other units, responsible for national defense.
Adjective:
- The country is under military rule.
- He comes from a long line of military officers.
- The base is a restricted military zone.
Noun:
- The military was deployed to assist in the disaster relief effort.
- He decided to make a career in the military.
- The government increased funding for the military.
"Military-industrial complex": A term describing the close relationship between a nation's military and the defense industry that supplies it, often implying political and economic influence.
- The report investigated the power of the military-industrial complex.
"Military precision": Used figuratively to describe an action carried out with extreme accuracy, discipline, and efficiency.
- The event was organized with military precision.
Militaristic (adj): Advocating or relating to the belief that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively.
- The leader's speeches had a militaristic tone.
Militarize (verb): To equip or supply with soldiers and military resources; to give a military character to.
- The government moved to militarize the border region.
Militia (noun): A military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
- The local militia was called up to defend the town.
- Adjective: Armed, service, martial, soldierly.
- Noun: Armed forces, services, troops, defense force.
Military service: A period of compulsory or voluntary service in the armed forces.
- All young men were required to complete two years of military service.
Military academy: An educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the armed forces.
- He graduated from a prestigious military academy.
To be a military secret: Information that is classified and not to be disclosed to the public.
- The details of the operation are a military secret.
Military intelligence: Information concerning an enemy or an area; also used ironically to suggest incompetence.
- According to military intelligence, the enemy forces were regrouping in the hills.
- associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians
- military police
- characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
- military uniforms
- of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
- military law
- the military forces of a nation
- their military is the largest in the region
- the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker