corps
/kor/ • noun (pl. corps /korz/) 1 a main subdivision of an army in the field, consisting of two or more divisions. 2 a branch of an army assigned to a particular kind of work. 3 a body of people engaged in a particular activity: the press corps. — ORIGIN French, from Latin corpus ‘body’.
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