(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
A ~ is a group of soldiers whose task is to guard the town or building where they live.
...a five-hundred man French army ~.
N-COUNT-COLL
2.
A ~ is the buildings which the soldiers live in.
The approaches to the ~ have been heavily mined.
N-COUNT
3.
To ~ a place means to put soldiers there in order to protect it. You can also say that soldiers are ~ed in a place.
British troops still ~ed the country...
No other soldiers were ~ed there.
...the large, heavily ~ed towns.
VERB: V n, be V-ed, V-ed