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Definition of Standing army
1. Noun. A permanent army of paid soldiers.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
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
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"The ancient National force superseded by standing army at end of 17th century,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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