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Meaning of military power | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. In jet aircraft technology, the maximum power of a jet aircraft without use of afterburners.
    countable, uncountable
  2. A great power with particular emphasis placed on its military aspect.
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“"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."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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