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braccio armato

English translation: armed wing

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Italian term or phrase:braccio armato
English translation:armed wing
Entered by: Giovanna Pistillo

16:54 Dec 5, 2009
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics / set phrase
Italian term or phrase: braccio armato
i cavalieri, considerati il "braccio armato" del re...
Giovanna Pistillo
Local time: 08:45
armed wing
Explanation:
i.e. "the king's armed wing"

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Note added at 3 mins (2009-12-05 16:58:27 GMT)
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other examples "the Provisional IRA was the armed wing of Sinn Féin"; "the Serbian militia was the armed wing of the Republika Srpska" etc.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:45
Grading comment
thank you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +6armed wing
Tom in London
3 -1armed arm
Giuseppe Bellone


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
armed wing


Explanation:
i.e. "the king's armed wing"

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Note added at 3 mins (2009-12-05 16:58:27 GMT)
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other examples "the Provisional IRA was the armed wing of Sinn Féin"; "the Serbian militia was the armed wing of the Republika Srpska" etc.

Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cedric Randolph
7 mins
agree  jacki-dart
33 mins
agree  James (Jim) Davis
2 hrs
agree  Giuseppe Bellone: Yes , often on the BBC site, although they seem to refer to large arganizations or militia in those cases, or rather that's what I understood. :)
15 hrs
agree  Barbara Toffolon (X)
22 hrs
agree  Luca Gentili
4 days
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
armed arm


Explanation:
Found this one too.
www.stopthenato.net/index.php/m/ab/id_p/21.html - Cached
Amazon.com: A Customer's review of The Forgotten Soldier
As German Army was """an armed arm of the"""" Nazi regime which conducted a racial war ... By the way the Russian Army was an "...armed arm(?)..." of the Communist Party. ...
www.amazon.com/review/R3FU1365XBB1J6 - 234k - Cached

Giuseppe Bellone
Italy
Local time: 08:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Italian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Nora Mahony: If possible, the repetition should really be avoided. Also the first link is to a site written in very poor English, and the second I suspect not written by a native English-speaker.
1 day 3 hrs
  -> Ok, thanks Nora for pointing this out. I had some doubts actually, in fact "wing" is the one I've found more often. :)
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