Military. 1  a body of officers without command authority, appointed to assist a commanding officer. 2  the parts of any army concerned with administrative matters, planning, etc., rather than with actual participation in combat.
Piles or hemorrhoids is a painful condition of inflammation and swelling that affects the veins around the anus or rectum. Although the pain can often be unbearable, in most cases the condition itself is not threatening.
1. an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers. 2. a large number, quantity, or amount of anything: a pile of work. 3. a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre. 4. a lofty or large building or group of buildings: the noble pile of Windsor Castle. 5. Informal. a large accumulation of money.