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What (who) is GARRISONED - definition
Garrisoned
·Impf & ·p.p. of Garrison.
Garrison
MILITARY BASE; COLLECTIVE TERM FOR A BODY OF TROOPS STATIONED IN A PARTICULAR LOCATION
Garrisons; Garrison town; Garnisaire; Garrison force
A garrison (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is any body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it. The term now often applies to certain facilities that constitute a military base or fortified military headquarters.
garrison
MILITARY BASE; COLLECTIVE TERM FOR A BODY OF TROOPS STATIONED IN A PARTICULAR LOCATION
Garrisons; Garrison town; Garnisaire; Garrison force
(garrisons, garrisoning, garrisoned)
1.
A garrison is a group of soldiers whose task is to guard the town or building where they live.
...a five-hundred man French army garrison.
N-COUNT-COLL
2.
A garrison is the buildings which the soldiers live in.
The approaches to the garrison have been heavily mined.
N-COUNT
3.
To garrison a place means to put soldiers there in order to protect it. You can also say that soldiers are garrisoned in a place.
British troops still garrisoned the country...
No other soldiers were garrisoned there.
...the large, heavily garrisoned towns.
VERB: V n, be V-ed, V-ed
Examples of use of GARRISONED
1. The pro–Taleban guerrillas declared a unilateral ceasefire last week after months of clashes with troops garrisoned there.
2. Last year, JAC visited dioxin–affected areas in Da Nang where the US air forces garrisoned during the war.
3. Israeli troops garrisoned along the closely monitored, fenced frontier with the Gaza Strip were on high alert and paramilitary riot police on standby.
4. They live the life of a garrisoned soldier, but they are forbidden many of the luxuries that make life on a US military base tolerable.
5. Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmed Fatfat told The Associated Press about 350 Lebanese soldiers and police garrisoned in Marjayoun were taken into custody.