Definition of Standing army

1. Noun. A permanent army of paid soldiers.


Definition of Standing army

1. Noun. A professional permanent army composed of full-time career soldiers, and not disbanded during times of peace. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Standing Army

standel
standels
standen
stander
standers
standest
standeth
standfast
standfasts
standfirst
standgale
standgales
standing
standing(a)
standing army (current term)
standing cloud
standing clouds
standing committee
standing committees
standing crop
standing down
standing end
standing ends
standing for
standing in
standing joke
standing jokes
standing on ceremony
standing operating procedure

Literary usage of Standing army

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"I now take the Liberty to add, that / believe our Liberties are not in any Danger from a standing army, that is to say from such an Army, and so stated, ..."

2. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1878)
"On the vital issue, standing army or no standing army, the Commons had pronounced an erroneous, a fatal decision. Whether that army should consist of five ..."

3. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"The ancient National force superseded by standing army at end of 17th century, ... of a standing army,3 the local forces languished for a lengthened period, ..."

4. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"3 [A standing army under the direct command of the Crown was, ... The standing army has, however, now been made a national institution by the Army ..."

5. The Military Policy of the United States by Emory Upton (1912)
"JEALOUSY OF A standing army. During the Revolution, the intense feeling of opposition to a standing army almost wrought the ruin of our cause. ..."

6. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1907)
"The Crown was unwilling to subject its prerogatives to Parliamentary control; the Commons objected to the admission that a standing army was more than a ..."

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