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combat engineers

combat engineers is the plural of combat engineer.

Meaning of combat engineer

Noun

combat engineer (plural combat engineers)

  1. A soldier employed to carry out engineering tasks in support of land forces during combat operations, facilitating the mobility of friendly forces while impeding that of the enemy.
    • With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall, page 325

Questions about combat engineers

What is combat engineers the plural of?
Combat engineers is the plural of combat engineer.

Words near combat engineers in the dictionary

  1. combat box
  2. combat boxes
  3. combat drone
  4. combat drones
  5. combat engineer
  6. combat engineers
  7. combat fatigue
  8. combat fatigues
  9. combat general
  10. combat loading
  11. combat log

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