armed robbery heist holdup stickup | robbery at gunpoint |
armed forces censorship | military censorship of personal communications to or from persons in the armed forces |
combat armed combat | an engagement fought between two military forces |
pogge armed bullhead Agonus cataphractus | northern Atlantic sea poacher |
slot one-armed bandit | a slot machine that is used for gambling, they spend hours and hours just playing the slots |
tablet-armed chair | a chair with an arm that has been widened for writing |
Armed Islamic Group GIA | a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in , aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state, the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres |
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda ALIR Former Armed Forces FAR Interahamwe | a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again, in ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists |
Forces of Umar Al-Mukhtar Umar al-Mukhtar Forces | a little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis, seeks to defeat Israel and liberate southern Lebanon, Palestine, and Golan Heights |
Lautaro Youth Movement Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces | a violent terrorist group organized in the s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government, leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths |
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia FARC | a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party, opposed to the United States, has strong ties to drug dealers |
army regular army ground forces | a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state |
navy naval forces | an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare |
military service armed service service | a force that is a branch of the armed forces |
military armed forces armed services military machine war machine | the military forces of a nation, their military is the largest in the region, the military machine is the same one we faced in but now it is weaker |
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 |
van der Waal's forces | relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles |
market forces | the interaction of supply and demand that shapes a market economy |
Armed Forces Day | the rd Saturday in May |
collaborate join forces cooperate get together | work together on a common enterprise of project, The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well, We joined forces with another research group |
armed | (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms, armed robbery |
light-armed | armed with light equipment and weapons, a light-armed brigade |
armed | (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns |
armed | having arms or arms as specified, used especially in combination, the many-armed goddess Shiva |
long-armed | having relatively long arms |
one-armed | having one arm, a one-armed veteran |
light-armed lightly-armed | armed with light weapons |
heavy-armed | having massive arms, he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed |