US ARMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does US Army mean? 

• US ARMY (noun)
  The noun US ARMY has 1 sense:

1. the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare

  Familiarity information: US ARMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• US ARMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; US Army; USA

Hypernyms ("US Army" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Meronyms (parts of "US Army"):

AHPCRC; Army High Performance Computing Research Center (a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications; a partnership of government and university and industry)

CID; Criminal Investigation Command (the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world)

Special Forces; U. S. Army Special Forces; United States Army Special Forces (a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting)

United States Army Rangers (a specially trained elite unit of the United States Army)

United States Military Academy; US Military Academy (a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Army)

AI; Army Intelligence (an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders)

Army National Guard; ARNG (a civilian reserve component of the United States Army comprised of guardsmen who serve during overseas peacekeeping missions and during local emergencies)

Domain category:

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

Holonyms ("US Army" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)

 Context examples 

A vaccine for adenoviruses that cause respiratory problems is already used by the US Army – evidence a vaccine for the obesity virus could be developed.

(Scientists Find Virus Linked to Weight Gain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)