| march | a steady advance, the march of science, the march of time |
march
marching | the act of marching, walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind), it was a long march, we heard the sound of marching |
| quick march | marching at quick time |
| peace march | a protest march against (a particular) war and in favor of peace |
| protest march | occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license |
army ant
driver ant
legionary ant | tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects |
army cutworm
Chorizagrotis auxiliaris | larvae (of a noctuid moth) that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the midwestern states |
armyworm army worm
Pseudaletia unipuncta | noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain |
| army base | a large base of operations for an army |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
hut army hut
field hut | temporary military shelter |
tank army tank
armored combat vehicle
armoured combat vehicle | an enclosed armored military vehicle, has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
Master of Architecture
MArch | a degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture |
marching music
march | genre of music written for marching, Sousa wrote the best marches |
military march
military music
martial music | brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade |
processional march
recessional march | a march to be played for processions |
funeral march
dead march | a slow march to be played for funeral processions |
| wedding march | a march to be played for a wedding procession |
| network army | a group of like-minded people united by the internet, a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern, a network army of software programmers contribute free software to those who want it |
Alex Boncayao Brigade
ABB
Revolutionary Proletarian Army
RPA-ABB | an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines, formed in the s |
Armata Corsa
Corsican Army | a terrorist organization founded in to oppose the link between nationalists and the Corsican mafia, the attacks of Armata Corsa are aimed at symbolic targets of colonialism in Corsica |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
ASALA
Orly Group
rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
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 |
Continuity Irish Republican Army
CIRA
Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional IRA
Provos | a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland |
Islamic Army of Aden
IAA
Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals, seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests, responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing western tourists in Yemen |
Jaish-i-Mohammed
Jaish-e-Muhammad
JEM
Army of Muhammad | a terrorist organization founded in , a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust, seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings |
Japanese Red Army
JRA
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Toiba
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
LET
Army of the Pure
Army of the Righteous | a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir, fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India, Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus |
| Lord's Resistance Army | a quasieligious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army |
National Liberation Army
ELN
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
| National Liberation Army ELN | a Marxist terrorist group formed in by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution, responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade, ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations |
New People's Army
NPA | a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government, uses hit squads called Sparrow Units, opposes United States military presence in the Philippines |
Real IRA
Real Irish Republican Army
RIRA
Dissident Irish Republican Army | a radical terrorist group that broke away in when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire, has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement |
Red Army Faction
RAF | a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany, a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle, a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups, disbanded in |
Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army
EGTK | a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara, attacks small unprotected targets such as power pylons or oil pipelines or government buildings |
| Salvation Army | a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless |
| army | a large number of people united for some specific purpose |
| army unit | a military unit that is part of an army |
army
regular army
ground forces | a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state |
corps
army corps | an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support |
Women's Army Corps
WAC | an army corps that was organized in World War II but is no longer a separate branch of the United States Army |
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 |
| Territorial Army | British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain |
| standing army | a permanent army of paid soldiers |
| Union Army | the northern army during the American Civil War |
Confederate Army
Army of the Confederacy | the southern army during the American Civil War |
| Continental Army | the American army during the American Revolution |