Usually means: Military personnel for national defense.
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  1. armed forces: Merriam-Webster
  2. armed forces: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. armed forces: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. armed forces: Collins English Dictionary
  5. armed forces: Vocabulary.com
  6. armed-forces: Wordnik
  7. the armed forces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. armed forces: Wiktionary
  9. armed forces: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. armed forces: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. armed forces: Dictionary.com
  12. Armed Forces (album), Armed Forces (sports society), Armed Forces, Armed forces (disambiguation), Armed forces: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. armed forces: Rhymezone
  14. armed forces: FreeDictionary.org
  15. armed forces: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. armed forces: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. armed forces: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. armed forces: Merriam-Webster

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  1. armed forces: Legal dictionary

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (armed forces)

noun:  The military forces of a nation, such as the army, navy, air force, marines, and sometimes, coastguard or border guard, which are tasked with the defence of the nation and its citizens, if necessary through use of deadly force.

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