iraqi

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/ɪˈɹɑːki/

adj 2noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, controlled, jewish, major, many, other, related

Many Iraqi families fled the country during the war.

VERB + IRAQI

am, arm, eating, forces, helped, need

The United States helped Iraqi forces rebuild their military after the invasion ended.

IRAQI + NOUN

cities, citizen, government, guys, jews, kurdistan, officials, procurements

The Iraqi government announced new policies to improve security in major cities.

PREP.

from, in, out, than, than

The Iraqi family fled out of the country during the war.

ADV.

closely

The international community has been closely monitoring iraqi political developments since the recent elections.

Definitions

noun

A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.

The order, which effectively halts the display of the flag virtually anywhere in Iraq, except the United States Embassy, said that flying the flag on buildings in Iraq would only reenforce the anti-American message that the military was "here to oppress the Iraqis."

They had to choose between properly equipping the Iraqis and risk seeing arms fall into the hands of insurgents or providing inferior weapons that would make it harder to fight them.

adj

Of, from, or pertaining to Persian Iraq.

Of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.

Under an urgent need to arm Iraqi forces, weapons had been supplied by coalition members and Iraqi procurements, and captured weapons had also been used, Dempsey said.

The United States and other allied forces have helped Iraqi forces carry out more than 250 counterterrorism missions since last October, according to a senior U.S. military official.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a native or inhabitant of Iraq

iraki

adjective — of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture

iraki

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

They had to choose between properly equipping the Iraqis and risk seeing arms fall into the hands of insurgents or providing inferior weapons that would make it harder to fight them.

Wiktionary

Under an urgent need to arm Iraqi forces, weapons had been supplied by coalition members and Iraqi procurements, and captured weapons had also been used, Dempsey said.

Wiktionary

The United States and other allied forces have helped Iraqi forces carry out more than 250 counterterrorism missions since last October, according to a senior U.S. military official.

Wiktionary

The allies controlled all major Iraqi cities.

Tatoeba · #804109

Rimas is an Iraqi citizen.

Tatoeba · #7840934

Usage Notes

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