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task_force
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[ noun ] (military) a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective
Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)He had formed his own task_force of three stragglers and led them up the hill in a Fighting_Seventh charge . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Military experts say a tight naval_blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task_forces , each built around an aircraft_carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers . A squadron of Navy jets and another of long-range patrol planes would add support to the carrier task_forces . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task
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