Corps

A corps is a military unit usually made up of two or more divisions.^[1] In the United States Army, a corps is the largest tactical unit that can plan and carry out its own missions.^[2] The term can also be applied to a military unit with a specific function such as a Quartermaster Corps or an Intelligence Corps.^[1] It can be applied to a branch of a military such as the United States Marine Corps.^[3] It can also mean a body of officers such as a Cadet Corps. The word has other uses. A group of people engaged in the same work can be called a corps. An example is the Peace Corps. The word comes from the Old French cors meaning "body, person, corpse, life".^[4] That word, in turn, is based on the Latin word corpus meaning "body".^[4]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "corps". Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
2. ↑ "Words of War: Understanding Military Jargon". NBCNews.com. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
3. ↑ Merrill Fabry (10 November 2015). "How the U.S. Marine Corps Was Founded Twice". Time Inc. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "corps (n)". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 17 July 2016.