garrison
IPA: gˈærɪsʌn
noun
- A permanent military post.
- The troops stationed at such a post.
- (allusive) Occupants.
- (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.
- A surname.
- A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
- A city in Benton County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lewis County, Kentucky.
- A census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland.
- A city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri.
- A census-designated place in Powell County, Montana.
- A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
- A hamlet in Putnam County, New York.
- A small city in McLean County, North Dakota.
- A small city in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah.
verb
- To assign troops to a military post.
- To convert into a military fort.
- To occupy with troops.
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Examples of "garrison" in Sentences
- The garrison retreated to the fortress.
- The garrison lacked pay, and was mutinous.
- In 1946, the fort was vacated by the garrison.
- Garrison promptly shoots the zombie in the head.
- The Turks were to reestablish the former garrisons.
- The destruction of the Confederate garrison was complete.
- In the end of the 1970s, the military garrison was dissolved.
- It was also the biggest garrison town near the border with Liege.
- It was the church intimately associated with the early Castle and its garrison.
- After the capitulation of the fortress, the garrison was in Japanese captivity.
- The main garrison is in a tiny town called Bascale, which is better known for its heroin labs.
- They cited a lack of concern by their leaders and what they call garrison style policies and duties.
- She's complained that Holness' use of the word "garrison" only serves to stigmatize inner city communities.
- The non-cryos refer to them as “Cryo Stasis Emersion Tanksâ€, but they are identical to our lockers in garrison, sans the vent holes.
- The word rendered "garrison" is different from that of 1Sa 13: 23; 14: 1, and signifies, literally, something erected; probably a pillar or flagstaff, indicative of Philistine ascendency.
- The army town whose garrison is being closed down; the special needs student who will no longer have classroom assistance; the tiny theatre company where future Oscar winners learned their trade.
- The enterprise faltered against Afghan resistance, and the main garrison at Kabul -- about 4,500 troops and 12,000 family members and camp followers -- decided to retreat back to India in January 1842.