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SALVATION ARMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Salvation Army mean?
• SALVATION ARMY (noun)
The noun SALVATION ARMY has 1 sense:
1. a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless
Familiarity information: SALVATION ARMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Salvation Army" is a kind of...):
NGO; nongovernmental organization (an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government)
Context examples
The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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