Definition of landing party in English:
landing party
nounPlural landing parties
A detachment of a ship's crew who go ashore to perform a task.
a smaller boat brings a landing party ashore
Example sentencesExamples
- Landing parties board vessels for a safe journey across the channel.
- The militia, patrolling the coasts, prevented enemy landing parties from establishing military bases on the island.
- Marine detachments aboard navy warships provided small landing parties for short-term security duties.
- We noticed the rest of the landing party wearing a different colour.
- The landing parties stealthily scaled the steep cliffs which rose from the river.