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standing army

an army maintained on a permanent basis, in peacetime as well as in time of war

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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