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Military vs Commando - What's the difference?

military | commando |

As nouns the difference between military and commando

is that military is armed forces while commando is a small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.

As an adjective military

is characteristic of members of the armed forces.

military

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
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  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
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  • Relating to war.
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  • Relating to armies or ground forces.
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Armed forces.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
  • (US, with the) U.S. armed forces in general, including the Marine Corps.
  • See also

    * martial * abbreviation: * army/Army * navy/Navy * air force/Air Force * marines/Marines * Merchant Marine * US National Guard * Coast Guard

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    commando

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia commando) (en-noun)
  • A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
  • * 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 89:
  • The most important objective was at Batna itself, where a group of three commandos each comprising ten men was to attack Deleplanque's sub-prefecture [...].
  • A commando trooper
  • (historical) An organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops
  • Derived terms

    * go commando

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