muster
IPA: mˈʌstɝ
noun
- Gathering.
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
- (military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
- The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
- Showing.
- (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
- (obsolete) A sample of goods.
- (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display.
- A collection of peafowl. (not a term used in zoology)
- Synonym of mustee
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit.
- (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
- (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
- (transitive, US) To enroll (into service).
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
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Examples of "muster" in Sentences
- Humli decided that they muster all the soldiers.
- The rest of the sentence should be able to muster.
- The large scaled muster of the clans was postponed.
- Together they mustered two thirds of the seats in the country.
- In the south, leaders of the young Kuomintang mustered an army.
- After the muster, the recruits swore to obey the articles of war.
- He mustered out following the collapse of the Confederacy in 1865.
- At the rank of sergeant, Kinney was mustered out of the army in 1873.
- The Roman emperors visited Bononia to conduct a muster of the legionnaries.
- Its purpose was to muster support against protectionism in the United States.