battalion
IPA: bʌtˈæɫjʌn
noun
- (military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
- (US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
- Any large body of troops.
- (by extension) A great number of things.
verb
- To form into battalions.
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Examples of "battalion" in Sentences
- He became adjutant of the battalion.
- The composition of the artillery battalion varied.
- He became the chaplain to the Nachtigall Battalion.
- Heinz Falken was the Commanding Officer of the battalion.
- Black refers to the petroleum capability of the battalion.
- He was the first Malay Commanding Officer of the battalion.
- The Battalion Commander is the commanding officer of the corps.
- The Battalion Vice Commandant had gone into Whites to transact some business.
- He was the commanding officer of two battalions, the Nahavand and the Farahan.
- Battalion was dissolved and the survivors used to bolster the other battalions.
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