| 单词 | private army |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprivate army private army n. an army not recruited by the State; a mercenary force; also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > other types of army army royalc1405 royal army1617 army of occupation1815 private army1857 1857 Times 18 Nov. 8/2 His own Contingent was still so strong as not to be immediately controlable by his private army. 1933 E. A. Mowrer Germany puts Clock Back 94 The Steel Helmet, or Confederation of Front-line Soldiers, the most respectable of the private armies, was founded on Christmas Day, 1918. 1959 M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement ix. 95 The police were a private army. 1968 N.Y. Times 23 July 41 (heading) Norman Mailer enlists his private army to act in film. 1992 Utne Reader Jan. 79/1 With the veneer of the Soviet threat torn away, agency actions prove more than ever a thesis shared by numerous former CIA agents—that the national security apparatus is little more than the private army of the Fortune 500. < as lemmas |
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