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Troops vs Forces - What's the difference?

troops | forces |

As nouns the difference between troops and forces

is that troops is plural of lang=en while forces is plural of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between troops and forces

is that troops is third-person singular of troop while forces is third-person singular of force.

troops

English

Noun

(head)
  • military personnel in uniform
    • There are 10,000 troops in Iraq.

    Synonyms

    * soldiers

    Verb

    (head)
  • (troop)

    • Statistics

    *

    forces

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (military) troops (plural only).
  • (music) the orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production (nearly always used in plural form only).