Traditionally, troops refers to the soldiers in a military. A cavalry soldier of private rank is called a "trooper" in many Commonwealth armies (abbreviated "Tpr", not to be confused with "trouper").

The meaning of TROOP is a group of soldiers. How to use troop in a sentence.

Troops are soldiers, especially when they are in a large organized group doing a particular task. The operation will involve more than 35,000 troops from a dozen countries. There were reports …

Local residents claim troops used the posts as bases to launch attacks on civilian areas.

troops A collective term for uniformed military personnel (usually not applicable to naval personnel afloat). See also airborne troops; combat service support elements; combat support troops; …

TROOP definition: an assemblage of persons or things; company; band. See examples of troop used in a sentence.

A troop is a squad or team of soldiers. Your great grandfather might claim that his was the first army troop to march into France during World War II. Though it's correct to use the noun troop …

Do not confuse troop with troupe. We all trooped back inside. The kids trooped off to school.

Definition of troop noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

(Definition of troops from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)