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Definition

a military post or the troops stationed there

More rarely, garrison can be used as a verb to reference the placing of troops at a post.

the US Army Garrison in Seoul, Korea

American soldiers have been garrisoned in Germany since the end of the Second World War.
Now as they were seeking to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
Acts 21:31 (NKJV)
It was then openly announced that hostilities must cease—Munro having signed a treaty by which the place was to be yielded to the enemy, with the morning; the garrison to retain their arms, the colors and their baggage, and, consequently, according to military opinion, their honor.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of The Mohicans
At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.
1 Chronicles 11:16 (NIV)
In any of our towns of garrison.
Shakespeare -- King Henry VI, Part 1
And just to think of a garrison hospital gives one the creeps.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
Anyway, the four of us were all that was necessary to beat their garrison.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
The troops, too, were regrouped in such barracks as had not been requisitioned, and settled down to the garrison life of the past.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
That is why we always keep it garrisoned, ready for use.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
The armed brethren, too, kept watch, and reliev'd as methodically as in any garrison town.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Here it was we made our camp, within plain view of Stirling Castle, whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison paraded.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
The orphanage was in a garrison town and was, as it were, sponsored by the Red Army.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
The ostler must have called out the town garrison without counting his horses first.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
The first was a man at the Guangdong garrison named Soo Jiang-'
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
He still wore a garrison belt with a longhorn buckle.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
None of which we cared about, as looked as if that Garrison landing had wasted Prof.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Ten years ago was the time, a garrison town in Cyprus the place.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
One half-naked kid with a garrison cap clonked on the marimba; the little black rubber balls on his sticks struck fast.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Capt. Yes, it is already garrison'd.
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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