GARRISON


Meaning of GARRISON in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ gærɪs(ə)n ]

( garrisons, garrisoning, garrisoned)

1.

A garrison is a group of soldiers whose task is to guard the town or building where they live.

...a five-hundred man French army garrison.

N-COUNT-COLL

2.

A garrison is the buildings which the soldiers live in.

The approaches to the garrison have been heavily mined.

N-COUNT

3.

To garrison a place means to put soldiers there in order to protect it. You can also say that soldiers are garrisoned in a place.

British troops still garrisoned the country...

No other soldiers were garrisoned there.

...the large, heavily garrisoned towns.

VERB : V n , be V-ed , V-ed

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