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military power en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) In jet aircraft technology, the maximum power of a jet aircraft without use of afterburners.
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(countable, uncountable) A great power with particular emphasis placed on its military aspect.
"England," says General Napier, "both at home and abroad was, in 1808, scorned a military power, when she possessed (without a frontier to swallow up large armies in expensive fortress) at least two hundred thousand of the best equipped and best disciplined soldiers in the universe, together with an immense recruiting establishment through the medium of the militia."
1870, James Grant, The King's Own Borderers; a Military Romance, page 361:
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great power