standing army

English

Noun

standing army (plural standing armies)

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

Translations

professional permanent army

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常備軍／常备军 (zh) (chángbèijūn)

• Dutch: staand leger n
• German: stehendes Heer (de) n
• Italian: esercito permanente m
• Maltese: dejma f
• Romanian: armată permanentă (ro) f

Further reading

• standing army on Wikipedia.Wikipedia