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nounground troops pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlySynonym of ground forces.
Blair urged a reluctant President Bill Clinton to send American ground troops. […] His willingness to commit ground troops was not shared elsewhere.
2003, Earl Aaron Reitan, The Thatcher Revolution, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 200Synonyms: ground forces
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nounSynonym of ground forces.
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