laager

noun

Definition of laagernext
South African
as in garrison

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  1. garrison
  2. camp
  3. fortress
  4. redoubt
  5. fort
  6. cantonment
  7. outpost
  8. stronghold
Noun
  • Once Timmerman was turned over to the U.S. military personnel at At Tanf garrison, he was flown by a U.S. military helicopter into Jordan, the official added.
    Matt Seyler, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • So troops at the U.S. garrison can try and disrupt those shipments.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of garrison
Noun
  • The image, which first appeared in Harper's Weekly, was created as Union propaganda during the war, featuring Santa handing out presents at a Union Army camp.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Mathews set up remote training camps in Idaho and Missouri.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of camp
Noun
  • One immediate result of those changes was that Dignity Health Sports Park became a fortress again.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The coming-of-age story follows the adventures of a young girl born into a band of robbers set in and around a fortress in medieval Scandinavia.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of fortress
Noun
  • Walls and towers made of stone and rammed earth rose from strategic ridge lines, making a formidable redoubt.
    ByAndrew Lawler, science.org, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The whereabouts of his own family was unknown, but thought to appear briefly in surveillance footage recovered earlier this year from an underground redoubt Israeli forces said was located beneath a cemetery.
    Karl Vick, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of redoubt
Noun
  • Crews also built an amphitheater on the fort’s 70,000 square meter backlot, while the water tanks at Malta Film Studios — also managed by Screen Malta, which can assist with the country’s 40% cash rebate — were used for the movie’s epic naval battles.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The council was already majority Democrat, but Hernandez adds to the progressive fort held down by Councilmembers Laura Pastor and Betty Guardado.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of fort
Noun
  • And the cynicism of the reforms was exposed by the regime's unwillingness to extend them to military cantonment areas or to the federal capital.
    Ilhan Niaz, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2012
  • The military has established large cantonments in Tamil areas, treating civilians with a heavy hand.
    William McGowan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2012
Definition of cantonment
Noun
  • On this winter’s eve, December 13, the newest outpost of his restaurant Igniv will have its grand opening in the small ski village of Andermatt, Switzerland.
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The hotel also has a wellness floor with a spa, gym, and indoor swimming pool, and an outpost of the buzzy Japanese eatery Zuma.
    Shivani Vora, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of outpost
Noun
  • The settlement dates back to a class-action lawsuit stemming the June 2009 arrest of a teenager named Christian Rodriguez for violating a curfew near his home in the Mar Vista Gardens housing project, a stronghold of the Culver City Boys gang.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Hezbollah’s role as chief deterrent to Israel for Iran, however, now seems to feature little in Israeli calculations, after continued pummeling of Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of stronghold
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