Collocations for "military"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "military" in context.
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military
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- take military action [in, against]
- a military [presence, intervention, base] in
- military [operations, forces] (in)
- military [training, exercises, drills]
- a military [college, academy, school, institution]
- military [personnel, leaders, workers, volunteers]
- military [planning, history]
- [compulsory, optional] military service
- three [months, years] of military service
- do (their) military service
- is on military duty (in)
- was a military man
- [deploy, station, position] military assets
- [do, avoid, object to] military service
- [mandatory, obligatory, optional] military service
- institute a military draft
- [set up, defend, attack] a military base
- military and civilian [clothes, forces, security]
- went from military to civilian life
- deliver a military [brief, briefing]
- joined the military after [high school, college]
- served in the military for [twenty] years
- enlisted [in, with] the military
- after [twenty] years of service in the military
- made a career in the military
- the government has [ordered, instructed] the military to
- the military was deployed in
- the military withdrew from
- [deployed, withdrew] the military
- the military [backs, supports] the new president
- the military was [planning, scheming] a coup
- the military and other [security, armed] forces
'military' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
action
- advance
- advisor
- aid
- aircraft
- airplane
- ally
- arm
- assault
- assistance
- base
- blade
- blockbuster
- blunder
- campaign
- capability
- cargo
- casualty
- cemetery
- chief
- chopper
- clause
- commander
- compound
- compulsory
- conjunction
- control
- conventional
- coup
- courageous
- crippled
- curfew
- daisy
- decree
- defeat
- defense
- depot
- desert
- detach
- discipline
- division
- draft
- drill
- drone
- enlist
- ensuing
- exempt
- exemption
- facility
- fatigue