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Task force   /tæsk fɔrs/   Listen
Task force

noun
1.
A temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective.
2.
A semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task.





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"Task force" Quotes from Famous Books



... there would be no intervention. There had been intervention on Behemoth, however, where a whole continent had tried to secede from the planetary republic and the Imperial Navy had been requested to send a task force. That was all right, in both cases. No interference with anything that passed for a planetary government, but only one sovereignty on any planet with nuclear weapons, and only one supreme sovereignty in a ...
— Ministry of Disturbance • Henry Beam Piper
... I know you birds aren't lying?" Zorn snarled. He stood up, strode up and down the room. "You walk in here and tell me I'll have a task force on my neck, that the Corps won't recognize my regime. Maybe you're right. But I've got other contacts. They say different." ...
— Gambler's World • John Keith Laumer
... will to take on major narcotrafficking groups and lack of serious commitment against money laundering continues to hinder the overall antidrug effort; major source of methamphetamine and heroin for regional consumption; currently under Financial Action Task Force countermeasures due to continued failure to address its inadequate ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... coming in, I was told that there's a task force of the Space Navy on maneuvers about five light-years ...
— Lone Star Planet • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire


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