Corps (disambiguation)
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A corps is a large military unit usually composed of two or more divisions.
Corps may also refer to:
Places
- Corps, Isère, a commune in the department of Isère in France
- Corps de Garde, a mountain in the Moka Range in Mauritius
Military
- Air Training Corps, UK or New Zealand Air Cadets
- Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers, a military force in Monaco composed mainly of officers from French military or fire services
- United States Marine Corps, a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea
Civic organizations
- AmeriCorps, a program of the U.S. federal government engaging adults in intensive community service
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States
- Diplomatic corps, the collective body of foreign diplomats accredited to a particular country or body
- Job Corps, a program of the United States Department of Labor that offers education and vocational training
- Mercy Corps, a global aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock
- National Association of Service and Conservation Corps (NASCC), an association of Service and Conservation Corps in the United States
- Peace Corps, a volunteer program run by the United States government
- Senior Corps, a United States government agency to provide aid to senior citizens
- Youth Conservation Corps, a summer work youth program in U.S. federally managed lands
Other uses
- Corps (church), a place of worship in The Salvation Army
- CORPS (Complete Omniversal Role Playing System), a generic role-playing game system
- Ambulance corps, an emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care
- Corps de ballet, the group of dancers who are not soloists
- German Student Corps, Germany's traditional university corporations or fraternities
- Corps Vandalia-Teutonia, a German Student Corps in the Kösener SC-Verband
- An abbreviation of Corporation
See also
- Corpse, a dead human body
- The Corps (disambiguation)
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