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The word "combat" is correct and usable in written English
You could use it in a sentence like, "The soldiers prepared for combat."
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Combat
noun
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
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He never saw combat and spent most of his military service as a guard in prisoner-of-war camps.
Farc has been increasing its activities, including the killing of two unarmed members of the Nasa indigenous community and last week the capture of two soldiers after combat.
She explained that the sortie began with military precision around 9pm on Monday, that all of those who attacked their homes were wearing surgical gloves, masks and combat uniforms, that they arrived with wheelie bins stuffed with bricks, bottles and other missiles, and that the entire attack appeared to be well organised.
The clash between Brienne and Sandor was the best of the season, both a showcase for two very different fighting methods and an acknowledgement that the reality of combat is you have to fight dirty to win.
We are considering other measures that can be taken to combat this escalating terrorist threat.
"You cannot train the judiciary to combat this crime if there are no laws on the books.
But like the twin pictures of Malcolm X and Margaret Thatcher on Gove's office wall, combat can be relied on to hold attention.
Related: Pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk keep on the attack as war of words intensifies "Of course we need training to revitalise the army, to reform and teach so it will be ready for combat," said the commander of a frontline checkpoint near Mariupol who would give only his call sign Cobra.
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Andriy Parubiy, head of Ukraine's national security and defence council, told the Guardian that these were all coordinated from a single anti-terrorism command centre, but numerous sources on the ground attest to the fact that coordination is poor, and there are major concerns over how ready the volunteer brigades are for combat.
It centres on a Home Guard unit of men too old or unsuited for combat duty in the second world war and was set in the fictional south-coast English town of Walmington-on-Sea Walmington-on-Sea Walmington-on-Sea
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