Troops

Definition: Troops

Troops

Noun

1. Soldiers collectively.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "troops" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Troops

Combatant

Armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale; minuteman; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: Troops

When I finally say I love you to any man and really mean it, it will be like a defeated general who's lost all his troops, surrendering and handing his sword to the enemy. (War and Peace; writing credit: Bridget Bol; Mario Camerini)

You, slave, will be torn apart by horses, to the plaudits of the troops and the amusement of the children. (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart)

You've seen a general inspecting troops before haven't you? (The Dirty Dozen; writing credit: E.M. Nathanson; Nunnally Johnson)

It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them! (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

And he is still in the field commanding troops. (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola)

I put my projects for boots step through troops and leave proof (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

I'm feeling alright I'm with my boys and with my troops, yeah (Late In The Evening; performing artist: Paul Simon)

American Troops on Furlough (1918)

Review of Troops by George V (1910)

King Edward and President Loubet Reviewing French Troops (1903)

Non-Union Miners at Work Under Guard of the Troops (1902)

Gen. Otis with His Troops in the Philippines (1902)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers (reference)

• A Boy Lieutenant: Memoirs of Freeman S. Bowley 30th United States Colored Troops Officer (reference)

• Eastern Troops in Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1943-1945 (reference)

• German Airborne Troops, 1939-45 (Men at Arms, 139) (reference)

• Louis XV's Army (4) Light Troops & Specialists (Men-At-Arms Series, 308) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Our Troops Train for War (reference)

• WW II - America At War: Our Troops Under Fire (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Shock Troops (reference)

• Troops of Satan (reference)

• Troops of Tomorrow (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

U.S. special forces troops ride horseback.

Wolf Pack troops defend Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, against enemy attacks during Foal Eagle 2000. Foal Eagle 2000 is a combined Republic of Korea/U.S. Forces Korea joint field training exercise that occurred peninsula-wide from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3.

U. S. Army Hospital Center, Mars, France. : General view of the grounds showing the construction work with Indo-Chinese troops digging trenches for sewers. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Death, riding Pegasus, is leading troops into battle] / Gamelin inv. et inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

At the edge of the desert off the North African coast, with local camel troops in the foreground, circa late 1923 or early 1924. During her maiden cruise at that time Concord steamed through the Mediterranean Sea and returned to the United States by way of the Suez Canal and the Cape of Good Hope. Credit: NAVY.

Artwork by Adolf Bock, 1941, published in a book on the German Navy published by Erich Klinghammer, Berlin, during World War II. It depicts the light cruisers Köln and Königsberg landing troops at Bergen, Norway, on 9 April 1940. Credit: NAVY.

A vivouack in safety or Florida troops preventing a surprise. Credit: Library of Congress.

The beginning of debarkation of troops at Daiquiri. Credit: Library of Congress.

American troops boarding transport steamer, Spanish-American war. Credit: Library of Congress.

Review of the troops by Columbia, George Washington, and Chester A. Arthur. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There are great and apparent conjectures, says he, that these men, speaking of those of Peru, for a long time had neither kings nor commonwealths, but lived in troops, as they do this day in Florida, the Cheriquanas, those of Brazil, and many other nations, which have no certain kings, but as occasion is offered, in peace or war, they choose their captains as they please, 1. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. (reference)

No other German troops shall, pending the evacuation or after the evacuation is complete, be admitted to the said territories. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The rest of the troops were stationed in the barracks, without counting the regiments in the environs of Paris.

My lord, He wonders to what end you have assembled Such troops of citizens to come to him.

I saw Caesar and Pompey at the head of their troops, just ready to engage.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Moreover, it has been a common pathogen isolated from troops of all nationalities that have served in areas with endemic disease. (references)

In other words, the troops (lymphocytes) don�t hear the message that the war is over. As a result, excess T and B cells gather in the lymph glands, liver and spleen. (references)

Humans and animals are believed to acquire the infection by inhalation of dust, ingestion of contaminated water, and contact with contaminated soil especially through skin abrasions, and for military troops, by contamination of war wounds. (references)

Business

The Czech armed forces currently number about 55,000 troops. (references)

Dubai's central military command (12,000 troops) has primary responsibility for Dubai's defense. (references)

With the exception of 45,000 French troops, Allied forces were under NATO's joint defense command. (references)

Civil Liberties

Gabon

Following 24 hours of rioting, gendarmerie and army troops restored calm in the city. (references)

Congo

These abuses, usually the ransacking of churches and the pilfering of church property, generally were committed by undisciplined government troops. (references)

Bulgaria

The conscript troops of the military are integrated; however, the professional officer corps has few members of ethnic or religious minority groups. (references)

Economic History

Djibouti

Among the French are 3,000 troops. (references)

Burundi

In 1916 Belgian troops occupied the area. (references)

Gambia, The

Senegalese troops defeated the rebel force. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

The settlers at times were accompanied by IDF troops. (references)

Nepal

RNA troops exchanged gunfire with the Maoists in the vehicle. (references)

Angola

UNITA troops committed numerous killings during attacks on villages. (references)

Minorities

Indonesia

However, the Government moved in troops, who were able to quell the violence. (references)

Nigeria

Many oil companies continued to employ local police and, in some cases, military troops to protect their facilities and personnel. (references)

Syria

The Government deployed 5,000 army troops and sealed off the area with military checkpoints, temporarily preventing nonresidents from entering the Suwayda province. (references)

Political Economy

Uae

Since 1999, the UAE has contributed troops to KFOR. (references)

Cyprus

A substantial number of Turkish troops remain on the island. (references)

Congo

North Korean advisers provided training to government troops. (references)

Political Rights

Central African Republic

On May 28, former President Andre Kolingba led a faction of the armed forces in a coup attempt, which resulted in 10 days of fighting in Bangui between government forces and troops loyal to Kolingba. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

Government troops also forced villagers to eradicate opium poppy fields. (references)

Brazil

In July an illegal strike by uniformed police in Bahia state led to rioting and looting, which ended only after the Government sent in federal troops to regain control. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "troops": air borne troops ♦ airborne troops ♦ airlanding troops ♦ alert the troops ♦ allied troops ♦ army troops ♦ array troops ♦ assault troops ♦ attacking troops ♦ auxiliary troops ♦ chalk troops ♦ column of troops ♦ combat troops ♦ concentration of troops ♦ corps troops ♦ covering troops ♦ crack troops ♦ depot troops ♦ effective troops ♦ engineer troops ♦ fighting troops ♦ forward line of own troops ♦ friendly troops ♦ garrison troops ♦ hostile troops ♦ hostility towards a country at war or foreign troops ♦ household troops ♦ hungarian air defense troops ♦ insurgent troops ♦ landing troops ♦ maintenance and supply troops ♦ member of the italian alpine troops ♦ mounted troops ♦ native troops ♦ occupying troops ♦ our troops ♦ parachute troops ♦ parade the troops ♦ pass troops in review ♦ regular troops ♦ reinforcement troops ♦ reserve troops ♦ screen of troops ♦ shock troops ♦ signal troops ♦ station troops ♦ stationary troops ♦ storm troops ♦ support the courage of the troops ♦ take a muster of the troops ♦ To muster troops into service ♦ To muster troops out of service ♦ troops in line ♦ troops rallied round the leader ♦ un troops. Additional references.

Beginning with "troops": troops-out.

Ending with "troops": horse-troops, shock-troops, siege-troops, storm-troops, the-troops.

Albanian

trupa (command, troop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عساكر شرطيين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

войска (army, array, militaries, militia, power, soldiery). (various references)

Chinese 

隊伍 (ranks), 部隊 (armed forces, army, force, unit), 部 (board, department, division, ministry, part, section), 队伍 (Procession, troop), 兵力 (armed forces, military strength), 兵�"� (soldiers). (various references)

Czech

vojsko (army). (various references)

Danish

troppers skattemæssige status i landet (tax status of troops stationed on its territory), tropper,som er direkte knyttet til korpset (corps troops), tropper under tildelt transportafmærkningsnummer (chalk troops), forreste linie af egne styrker (forward line of own troops), FLOT (forward line of own troops). (various references)

Dutch

Opleidingsdetachement Vredesmachten (Peacekeeping Troops Training Detachment), fiscale regeling voor in het land gestationeerde troepen (tax status of troops stationed on its territory). (various references)

Finnish

sotaväki (army, military forces, soldiers), sotajoukko (army), joukot (forces). (various references)

French

troupes. (various references)

German

truppen (militaries, squads, troupes). (various references)

Greek 

στρατεύματα. (various references)

Hebrew 

�'יסות, צבא (armed forces, army, military). (various references)

Hungarian

seregek. (various references)

Indonesian

balatentara, bala (disaster), ambalan (procession). (various references)

Italian

truppe (troop). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

軍隊 (army), 軍勢 (hosts, military forces), 軍 (army, battle, campaign, fight, force, war), 兵馬 (arms and cavalry, military affairs, war). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐ�"たい (army, colony), ぐ�"ぜい (hosts, military forces), ぐ�" (army, country, district, force, group), へいば (arms and cavalry, military affairs, war). (various references)

Korean 

부대 (Accompanying, Bag, troop). (various references)

Manx

sidooryn (garrison, soldiery). (various references)

Pig Latin

oopstray

Portuguese

tropas (garrison, military). (various references)

Romanian

trupe sedentare (stationary troops), trupe paraşutate (parachute troops), trupe indigene (native troops), trupe de desant (landing troops), trupe de şoc (shock troops), trupe apte de luptã (effective troops), trece trupele în revistã (pass troops in review, take a muster of the troops), trece trupe în revistã (pass troops in review), ridica moralul trupelor (support the courage of the troops). (various references)

Russian 

войска (array, force, military, overseas contingents). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trupe. (various references)

Spanish

tropas. (various references)

Swedish

soldater (soldiery). (various references)

Turkish

birlikler, askeri kuvvetler, asker (army, askari, at, guardsman, Kern, kerne, man-at-arms, military service, pawn, serviceman, soldier, warrior). (various references)

Ukrainian

війська (forces, military). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quân nhảy dù (parachute troops), quân đổ b (landing force, landing troops). (various references)

erim, ugnim. (various references)

copia, copiae, copiae copie, copiam, copias, corona, coronae, coronam, coronas, coronis, gregatim, RM:Uffizi federal da truppas da cumbat, RM:Uffizi federal da truppas da logistica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "troops": troopship, troopships. (additional references)

Words ending with "troops": paratroops. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Troops" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oropos, toops, topos, Toposa, toros, Torous, Trepov, trooks, troope, troopes, tropo, tropoe, tropos, trops, Tropsch, tropus, trosp, troupf, trouph, troups, trous, Troyos, trrops. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ports, proso, prost, roost, roots, rotos, sopor, spoor, sport, stoop, strop, topos, toros, torso, troop.

-2 letters: oops, oots, opts, orts, poor, port, post, pots, pros, root, roto, rots, soot, sort, spot, stop, tops, toro, tors, trop.

-3 letters: oot, ops, opt, ors, ort, pot, pro, rot, sop, sot, too, top, tor.

-4 letters: op, or, os.

+1 letter: gosport, poorest, protons, provost, stooper, torpors, uproots.

+2 letters: comports, copastor, doorpost, doorstep, doorstop, dropouts, dropshot, foretops, gosports, hoopster, impostor, isotropy, outcrops, outdrops, outports, outpours, overtops, patroons, poofters, porosity, porticos, portions, positron, postform, postoral, postriot, proctors, promotes, proteose, provosts, rooftops, soapwort, sorption, stolport, stoopers, stopover, taprooms, taproots, topcross, topworks, torpedos, towropes, trollops, troopers.