noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
light
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The cap badge worn at the turn-of-the-century was a white metal normal light infantry stringed bugle-horn surmounted by a ducal coronet.
■ NOUN
battalion
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The army will expand from four to six the number of infantry battalions ready for rapid deployment.
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It was the custom then to double the size of most infantry battalions and of many gunner and other units.
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Experts estimate that most infantry battalions have two or three soldiers Awol at any one time.
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Its size and shape depended on the number of infantry battalions and armoured regiments in its order of battle.
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Each infantry battalion has five companies.
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Will he ensure that these infantry battalions are more swiftly available in future?
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Those jobs will go as part of a reduction of 18 infantry battalions .
company
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According to Bergson, however, the field was a different world: I had an excellent infantry company .
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That meant that our track had more firepower than a walking infantry company .
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M., my company hooked up with an infantry company.
division
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At 03.50 on the first day of the attack, 12 infantry divisions went forward in heavy mist.
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More military police and an infantry division was called into action, and the riot was quickly ended the next day.
regiment
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The message came from the headquarters of an infantry regiment based eight miles away, towards Benghazi.
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The long roll was beaten among the infantry regiments in every direction.
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He served in Mesopotamia during the First World War, came home in 1916 to transfer to an infantry regiment .
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He was needed in the headquarters company of an infantry regiment fighting in Luxembourg.
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On the south wall the memorial was for the infantry regiments .
unit
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Up to three Fanatics can hide in each Night Goblin infantry unit - note down which units conceal Fanatics and how many.
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Frequently, infantry units dispensed with their own mor-tars altogether and used the mortar teams as an additional rifle squad.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Seven hundred Swabian infantry joined him, raised by Frederic of Lorraine, the Pope's chief lieutenant.
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The infantry were peasants, coddled, soft and fat.
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The army was a mainly infantry force, with a light cavalry screen, supported by a strong artillery arm.
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The Jacobites, with 800 horse and 6300 infantry , easily outnumbered Argyll's 960 dragoons and 2200 foot soldiers.
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The long roll was beaten among the infantry regiments in every direction.
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The photographers stormed the railing and took aim like a starved infantry picking off fish from a bridge.
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What was wrong was that it should never have been conducted by mechanized infantry .
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Women are now barred from infantry and armored units.