I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a military/army/troop convoy
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28 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military convoy.
combat troops/soldiers/forces/units
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US combat troops were in the streets of the capital yesterday.
contingent of troops
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A large contingent of troops was dispatched.
deploy forces/troops/weapons etc
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NATO’s decision to deploy cruise missiles
ground troops (= soldiers who fight on land )
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ground troops
shock troops
troop carrier
troop withdrawals
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large-scale troop withdrawals
withdraw...troops
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the USA’s decision to withdraw 40,000 troops from western Europe
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
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After 10 days of gun battles, Federal troops were called out to quell the violence.
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As for the Federal troops , they were dispirited but not robbed of their confidence.
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In addition, the pamphlet discouraged police brutality and described how to obtain federal troops quickly.
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State military volunteers, with the aid of federal troops , moved in to suppress the rebellion.
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State national guardsmen subdued the riot, without a call for federal troops .
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President Kennedy assured Wallace that federal troops would be used only if the state abdicated its responsibilities.
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Six hundred federal troops from Fort Sam Houston were assigned to aid in keeping order.
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The carnage lasted until midnight when a small detachment of federal troops intervened and the rioters scattered.
foreign
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The texts still contained an important difference on the issue of maximum overall foreign troop deployments allowed to the two military blocs.
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Foreign capital, foreign troops dominate modern japan, he said.
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Naturally, foreign troops would first have to pull out from the areas they occupy.
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Zaïrean exiles also expressed fears that Mobutu would be tempted to use force against the opposition now that foreign troops had been withdrawn.
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After a lengthy civil war, the groups agreed to a national election in 1992 and foreign troops withdrew.
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They are also threatening local people and the foreign peacekeeping troops in the enclave of Oe Cusse.
regular
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Equally ambivalent were local attitudes to the wholesale billeting in Sussex of regular troops and other county militias during invasion scares.
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The regular troops successfully ended the Great Strike within a few days.
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The Kabul regime responded by reinforcing the garrison's 3,000-4,000 regular troops and by launching a high-altitude bombing campaign.
soviet
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The Soviet troops who invaded Kabul in 1979 took nothing away, and even repainted some exhibition rooms.
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May 27: the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn.
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Nearly twice that number of former Soviet troops were currently stationed on its territory.
■ NOUN
carrier
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A couple worked on the engine of a troop carrier .
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A single Marine Corps troop carrier costs more than one billion.
government
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The Independent of April 18 reported renewed clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and government troops near Sulaimaniya.
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Chun and Tae-Woo Roh, who would succeed him in 1988, put down the uprising by dispatching government troops .
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The rebels blamed the massacre on the government troops and the government blamed it on the rebels.
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Isolated rebel bands continue to harass government troops in the hills.
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In many villages, Khmer Rouge informers warn them if government troops are in the area.
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They met with no resistance from government troops .
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On Monday she bluntly rejected a temporary ceasefire offer by the rebels, which would have allowed the government troops to withdraw.
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With the ceasefire in operation, government troops attempted to restore order in Kabul by disarming mujaheddin fighters roaming the city.
ground
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Send ground troops to enforce - not just oversee - a peace?
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They also wanted to show their troops that they were part of the battle and supported the ground troops with our firepower.
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The mock load could be ammunition or supplies for ground troops ... or emergency aid for refugees.
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Fire support missions were dangerous for the crews and, if badly done, dangerous for the ground troops , as well.
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The air force created airborne units versed in machine-gun strafing and rocket-launching operations in support of ground troops .
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The scouts or the ground troops would find the enemy or be in contact.
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But if the choppers took a pounding, the ground troops also suffered.
withdrawal
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Soviet troop withdrawals Talks involving Col.-Gen.
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Partial troop withdrawals from Algiers began on July 4.
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The agreement on troop withdrawal was to be regarded as the basis for a future treaty on the issue.
■ VERB
deploy
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Following the incident the government of the Solomon Islands deployed additional troops in the Shortland Islands.
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Fighting has virtually ceased as the U.N. has deployed 15,000 troops .
fight
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Sure I was paid, but I trained troops to fight .
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Milosevic dispatched his troops to fight those wars, then to advise proxy armies.
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The wars of this period presented little opportunity to shock troops fighting on horseback.
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Beauregard, inciting his troops and fighting for his fading prestige of invincibility.
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Its troops have fought in Bosnia, and in practice Western Hercegovina is annexed to it.
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Moreover, a few years later, the Burgundians did provide troops to fight against Attila at the Catalaunian Plains.
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But the law is vague on whether U.S. troops would fight to defend the democratic island of 23 million inhabitants.
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Leonidas ordered away his Peloponnesian allies; good troops , who could fight again.
kill
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The next day at least 35 people were killed when troops fired on crowds in three areas of the city.
lead
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Magnus seized the opportunity and led his troops forward.
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He selected Captain Henri Riviere to lead two companies of troops to the north.
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Quinn had gambled on there being something inside the case to lead police and troops to whatever rendezvous he established with Zack.
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Mackay died, personally leading his troops into the thickest of the fight at the Battle of Steenkirk in July 1692.
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How many immature lads will you lead against trained troops , to be slaughtered like sheep?
order
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A trumpet called behind, ordering another troop to file right into a field of growing wheat.
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Captain Samphan was walking fast across the road in the middle distance, ordering some of the troops into the paddy field.
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A military commander should order his troops in the way best calculated to achieve victory at a minimal cost.
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He walks nervously, and finally orders the troops to withdraw.
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I ordered our troops to retreat and disappear like burning grass in the dry season.
send
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The armed forces are said to have sent an extra 2,000 troops to the border area, bringing the total to 3,500.
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But we should be very careful not to expect to send troops all over the world.
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They would have to send troops down from Castlebar to seek out and destroy us.
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He sent no federal troops to Atlanta.
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Edward Smith, commander of the battalion which had sent troops to Nimba county, was replaced by Brig. -Gen.
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A Wall Street broker wrote Theodore Roosevelt, asking him to send troops to arrest the lynchers.
station
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Word also circulated that the townspeople had sent letters to their congressmen objecting to the stationing of black troops in their area.
withdraw
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Khasbulatov returned to announce that Gorbachev had agreed to withdraw the troops on the following day.
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The Defence Ministry Collegium decided at a meeting on the morning of Aug. 21 to withdraw the troops .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peacekeeping force/troops etc
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A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.
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Because Oglala was so violent at that time, we were asked to be like a peacekeeping force.
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It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere.
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The peacekeeping force has already been extended five times, and the deployment is now scheduled to end July 31.
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They called for the removal of Eyadema, political neutrality by the army, and the creation of a special peacekeeping force.
regular army/troops/soldier
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Equally ambivalent were local attitudes to the wholesale billeting in Sussex of regular troops and other county militias during invasion scares.
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It is possible that some of Mezrag's forces continue to provide the regular army with back-up troops.
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The regular army had become increasingly discontented with its role in the war over the last ten years.
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The regular army has not advanced from the edge of the zone.
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The regular troops successfully ended the Great Strike within a few days.
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The other women in the classroom, except for two in the uniforms of the regular army, wear dresses.
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The ragged guerrillas become a new regular army with housing and pensions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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One such regulation prohibited a body of troops on the march from occupying the whole street.
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Shells from our gunboats on the James came hoarsely spluttering over the heads of our troops.
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The day he shook off their protection they instigated a guerrilla uprising backed by their own troops.
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The United States has 37,000 troops based in the southern half of the divided peninsula.
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To reflect their extraordinary skill they have a higher weapon skill than most troops.
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We saw some troops coming and we ran away.
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Zaïrean exiles also expressed fears that Mobutu would be tempted to use force against the opposition now that foreign troops had been withdrawn.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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Then words trooped back into his reunifying consciousness.
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My friend proved that the cabbie was dissembling, and we trooped back to the terminal to look for Mr Right.
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He was stiff with mud and thick-headed with tiredness as he and Isay trooped back through the gatehouse to the Manse.
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Everyone troops back to the house for the all-night party.
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She trooped back to the arch as the coach disappeared down the hill.
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And so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street, perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute.
in
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On stage there was a stainless-steel cooker, on which food was simmering in saucepans as the audience trooped in.
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The doctor called me into his office and as usual the Rabari trooped in behind me.
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After a while, the dads trooped in .
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Here came the mosque, the crowds trooping in .
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We all trooped in , two by two, as if we were the animals going into Noah's bloody ark.
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A moment later the door opened and five men in uniforms trooped in.
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They all trooped in , eating their fish and chips, and clustered around the bed.
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He had explained all this to the police officer as the man confirmed when Rain and Oliver trooped in to see him.
off
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But brightness was in short supply as his players trooped off to a crescendo of boos.
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We trooped off round the back of the church and up into a small raised garden where there were indeed some benches.
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The navvies and the bricklayers, masons and blacksmiths, would troop off to other masters.
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She always paid for their meals during rehearsals and they would troop off to the Express Dairy cafeteria opposite.
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After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then.
out
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They all trooped out , mumbling and muttering, except Benedicta.
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We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence.
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So I spoke, and the reverend prayed and we all trooped out again.
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Then there was a movement of feet, and the shadowy spectres trooped out into the night.
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Mabs, Tashie, Cosmo and Hubert pushed back their chairs and trooped out .
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On a gambit, he ordered the U.N. troops out of the Sinai.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street, perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute.
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Then there was a movement of feet, and the shadowy spectres trooped out into the night.