All 3 Uses
garrison
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
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- We had been allotted to one of the recently formed regiments, but were first to be sent back for equipment to the garrison, not to the reinforcement-depot, or course, but to another barracks.†
p. 46.9
- Should I tell her how we once found three enemy trenches with their garrison all stiff as though stricken with apoplexy?†
p. 161.6
- And just to think of a garrison hospital gives one the creeps.†
p. 256.7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(garrison) a military post or the troops stationed there
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, garrison can be used as a verb to reference the placing of troops at a post.