garrisonnoun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]
uk/ˈɡær.ɪ.sən/us/ˈɡer.ə.sən/a group of soldiers living in or defending a town or building, or the buildings that the soldiers live in:
The 100-strong garrison had received no supplies for a week.
a garrison town
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Places involved in military activity
- base
- Bastille
- battlefield
- battleground
- beachhead
- billet
- boot camp
- camp
- fort
- GHQ
- guard post
- guardhouse
- guardroom
- line
- PX
- redoubt
- sentry box
- staging area
- the front line
- theatre
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garrisonverb [ T usually passive + adv/prep ]
uk/ˈɡær.ɪ.sən/us/ˈɡer.ɪ.sən/to put a group of soldiers in a place in order to live there and defend it:
Troops are garrisoned in the area.
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Military training & ceremonies
- assault course
- attention
- civil defence
- drill
- ease
- fall
- fall in
- fatigue
- manoeuvre
- march
- pass
- pass out
- passing-out
- recon
- reconnaissance
- review
- route march
- salute
- take the salute idiom
- troop
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