colonels
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colonels, plural;
/ˈkərnl/,
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colonels, plural;
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An army officer of high rank, in particular (in the US Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps) an officer above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
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- Colonel , abbreviated as Col or COL, is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every country in the world. It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures. A colonel is typically in charge of a regiment in the army.
- "The colonels," "the colonels' regime," and "Piłsudski's colonels", TIME, Monday, Apr. 07, 1930, TIME, Monday, Dec. 25, 1933 are expressions that refer to a group of prominent individuals in the Second Polish Republic who dominated the government from 1926 to 1939. ...