Sekirov Dictionary

garrison

/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ.sən/

noun 4
verb 3
forms 3

noun4

A permanent military post.
The troops stationed at such a post.
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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. …” — 1913
(US) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.

verb3

To assign troops to a military post.
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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
To convert into a military fort.

forms

garrisoned · garrisoning · garrisons

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