armed services

Questions about armed services

What does armed services mean?

armed services means "the military forces of a nation".

What is another word for armed services?

Close synonyms include military, armed forces, military machine, war machine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is armed services a common word?

armed services is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.