Corp, Corps, Crops, Corpse, Copse

The army corps are not decreasing in their numbers because no country is willing to cut its defence budget nor significantly increasing spending on crop insurances.

Corp is a short form, or an abbreviation, for a corporation. Corp is a business firm whose existence is approved in a country or in some state and abides to legal norms of the land.

Corp. is an abbreviation for corporation, and its plural form is corps, and corporal. Corps is a noun referring to a unit of an army that has divisions under it, refers to a related group like press corps, medical corps.

Army corps are deployed in the civilian areas when affected with natural disasters like floods, earthquakes and heavy rains. “My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.” –Paul Theroux

Corps is a body of people who are associated together as a result of their profession like army corps, women’s army corps. Diplomatic corps (corps diplomatique) enjoy immunity from police and legal entities.

Corps is pronounced with a silent ‘p’; pronounced like core. Corps de ballet is the chorus of a ballet company. Corps-a-corps in fencing refers to the action of fencers (players) coming into physical contact with one another; the point of contact can be their bodies, or their hilts.

Crops!
Crop is a cultivated plant such as paddy, peanut (groundnut or monkeynut), sunflower, wheat, cereal, fruit, vegetable, etch grown on a large scale usually for commercial purpose.
Crop also refers to a group, related people or things.
The current crop of celebrities are promoting charitable activities.
Crop as a verb refers to cut (crop your hair), and harvest.
In Japan going to watch rice fields is a cherished activity.
Crops in India make news because crops such as groundnut, rice, maize, wheat and others are subjected to one or the other calamities.
Corpse is a dead body of a person.

Corpse is the lifeless human being, cadaver, remains of the mortal being. But carcass refers to the dead body of animals.

Informally, corpse refers to an actor losing control during a performance and laughinguncontrollably.

The derivatives of corpse are corpselike (adjective), corpse plant (herb of the family Ericaceae), corpse camp (verb: an online game).
Copse is a thick growth of bushes, thicket, coppice, clump of trees. Copses are disappearing in the vicinities of cities as a result of human encroachment.