platoon
IPA: pɫʌtˈun
noun
- (military) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
- A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
- (education, historical) A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.
verb
- (baseball) To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher
- (sports) To specialize in a particular position or playing style.
- Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.
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Examples of "platoon" in Sentences
- The scene ends with the platoon.
- The natural strength of a platoon is understrength.
- A sergeant in the first platoon senses the predicament.
- Featured guests are Crow and Cynic from the Street Platoon.
- Sergeant Derrick was in command of his platoon of the company.
- Performs the duties of the Platoon Sergeant of the radar platoon.
- A platoon is typically less than thirty men, and a squad is eight or less.
- He's placed in charge of the unruly and undertrained reconnaissance platoon.
- This year's blue-line platoon is a fairly uninspiring lot in Red Line's view.
- Johnny passes the test and is designed as the adjutant for the B team platoon.
- "Testing was conducted on an unwitting platoon from the 75th Ranger Regiment."
- The leader of the platoon was killed, leaving the unit in charge of a sergeant.
- Based on their mien and location, platoon officers suspected they were militants.
- Once the retrieval of boat lands, the platoon boards and returns to the transport.
- That's because there isn't one specific focal character; if anything, the platoon is the focal character.
- The platoon is also required to promote an uneasy hearts-and-minds policy among notionally friendly locals.
- In the current report, we are told that the situation became so serious that a platoon from the 3Bn the Parachute Regiment refused to go out on patrol until the problem was resolved.
- The Navy announced last year it would name a destroyer after Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham, who used his helmet and body to cover a grenade in Iraq on April 14, 2004, protecting members of his platoon from the bulk of the blast, according to the Department of Defense's "Heroes in the War on Terror" website.