From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Military, Armycorpscorps /kɔː $ kɔːr/ ●○○ noun (plural corps /kɔːz $ kɔːrz/) [countable]1PMa group in an army with special duties and responsibilities
the medical corps
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers2BOGROUP OF PEOPLEa group of people who work together to do a particular job
the president’s press corps
the diplomatic corps3PMA technical a trained army unit made of two or more divisions (=groups of soldiers)Examples from the Corpuscorps• a balletcorps• He was one of their best corpscommanders.• I even felt this about the two trombones, who did not join the magnificentbrasscorps until its finalchorale.• He was the guy who developed an esprit de corps among the committee members.• She had first given her life to Him as a child, at the mercyseat in the local corps.• It has no officercorps and has never developed a uniformcentral system of recruitment and management.• The breakdown of discipline and morale in the professional officer corps is hardly a state secret.• The surgeons of our corpsselected for a hospital a large massivestone building...Origincorps(1500-1600)FrenchLatincorpus; → CORPUS
