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garrison
/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ.sən/
name 5noun 4verb 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
naval, turned
VERB + GARRISON
establish, establishing, wish
GARRISON + NOUN
choice, traitor
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A permanent military post.
2
The troops stationed at such a post.
My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […] Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […] And for the expedition of this war, If he thinke good, can from his garriſons, UUithdraw as many more to follow him.
For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.
3
Occupants.
“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”
4
A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.
verb
1
To assign troops to a military post.
Nor was he content with thus strongly garrisoning the fort, but he likewise added exceedingly to its strength by furnishing it with a formidable battery of quaker guns—rearing a stupendous flag-staff in the centre which overtopped the whole city—and moreover by building a great windmill on one of the bastions.
2
To convert into a military fort.
3
To occupy with troops.
'Establishing a land bridge through Mariupol to Crimea would take tens of thousands of troops. So would garrisoning eastern Ukraine.', http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21615605-now-willing-use-russian-troops-more-or-less-openly-eastern-ukraine-vladimir-putin-has
name
1
A surname.
2
A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
3
A city in Benton County, Iowa.
4
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lewis County, Kentucky.
5
A census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a fortified military post where troops are stationed
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […] Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […] And for the expedition of this war, If he thinke good, can from his garriſons, UUithdraw as many more to f
Wiktionary02
For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it wi
Wiktionary03
“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”
Wiktionary04
Nor was he content with thus strongly garrisoning the fort, but he likewise added exceedingly to its strength by furnishing it with a formidable battery of quaker guns—rearing a stupendous flag-staff
Wiktionary05
'Establishing a land bridge through Mariupol to Crimea would take tens of thousands of troops. So would garrisoning eastern Ukraine.', http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21615605-now-willing-use-r
Wiktionary06
The garrison was forced to surrender.
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