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 |