Garrison
Garrison verb - Station (troops) in a fort or garrison.
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Synonyms for Garrison
Maintain and garrison are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Maintain" instead a verb "Garrison".
Nearby Words: garrisoned, garrisoning
Common collocations
| place | garrison place | maintain place |
| system | garrison system | maintain system |
| population | garrison population | maintain population |
Both words in one sentence
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George MacDonald Fraser, in the McAuslan stories, relates how his first independent command involved marching eighty Scottish soldiers through miles of Libyan desert to garrison an ex-French Foreign Legion fort and "maintain a presence" there.
Source: Military Moonshiner - They became amongst the most bitter and hateful entities in the franchise after being used during the most hellish sieges of the Great Crusade, or relegated to garrison duty - in some cases ten-man squads of Iron Warriors were expected to maintain order on entire worlds.
Source: Who's Laughing Now? - The military system in place makes sense on paper: the best and brightest defend humanity's center (the Military Police Brigade) and the rest either maintain the walls or go on scouting missions (the Garrison and the Survey Corps, respectively).
Source: Asskicking Equals Authority
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