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TERRITORIAL ARMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Territorial Army" is a kind of...):
territorial; territorial reserve (a territorial military unit)
Meronyms (parts of "Territorial Army"):
yeomanry (a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army)
Meronyms (members of "Territorial Army"):
territorial (nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit)