(marches, marching, marched)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
When soldiers march somewhere, or when a commanding officer marches them somewhere, they walk there with very regular steps, as a group.
A Scottish battalion was marching down the street...
Captain Ramirez called them to attention and marched them off to the main camp...
We marched fifteen miles to Yadkin River...
VERB: V prep/adv, V n adv/prep, V amount/n, also V
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March is also a noun.
After a short march, the column entered the village.
N-COUNT
2.
When a large group of people march for a cause, they walk somewhere together in order to express their ideas or to protest about something.
The demonstrators then marched through the capital chanting slogans and demanding free elections...
VERB: V prep/adv
•
March is also a noun.
Organisers expect up to 300,000 protesters to join the march.
N-COUNT
• marcher (marchers)
Fights between police and marchers lasted for three hours.
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3.
If you say that someone marches somewhere, you mean that they walk there quickly and in a determined way, for example because they are angry.
He marched into the kitchen without knocking.
VERB: V prep/adv
4.
If you march someone somewhere, you force them to walk there with you, for example by holding their arm tightly.
I marched him across the room, down the hall and out onto the doorstep.
VERB: V n prep/adv
5.
The march of something is its steady development or progress.
It is easy to feel trampled by the relentless march of technology...
N-SING: usu the N of n
6.
A march is a piece of music with a regular rhythm that you can march to.
A military band played Russian marches and folk tunes.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
7.
If you give someone their
marching orders, you tell them that you no longer want or need them, for example as your employee or as your lover. (
BRIT; in AM, use walking papers
)
What does it take for a woman to say 'that's enough' and give her man his marching orders?
PHRASE: PHR after v
8.
If you steal a march on someone, you start doing something before they do it in order to gain an advantage over them.
If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR on n