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Definition of platoon
1 : a subdivision of a company-sized military unit normally consisting of two or more squads or sections
2 : a group of persons sharing a common characteristic or activity a platoon of waiters; especially : a group of football players who are trained for either offense or defense and are sent into or withdrawn from the game as a body
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Examples of platoon in a Sentence
will need a platoon of assistants to mount the display at the spring flower show
Recent Examples of platoon from the Web
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Last year Santana and Rajai Davis gave Francona the perfect platoon to put in the leadoff spot.
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A decorated combat veteran, Grigsby commanded Army infantry units from the platoon to division levels.
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Mueller led a rifle platoon in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969.
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On Gates' last trip to Afghanistan, Kelly visited his son's platoon in private.
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Hairston, who served in Afghanistan for nine months in 2013, was a platoon sergeant at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
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Jackson saved his platoon from almost certain destruction.
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Landis served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968 as a platoon leader and company commander with the Army’s 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry.
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Bizzard jammed up the sound on the History Channel—some war platoon was sloshing across a marsh, with the backsong of explosions—and swallowed his dinner.
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Origin and Etymology of platoon
French peloton small detachment, literally, ball, from Middle French pelote little ball — more at pellet
platoon
Definition of platoon
transitive verb
: to play (one player) alternately with another player in the same position (as on a baseball team)
intransitive verb
1 : to alternate with another player at the same position
2 : to use alternate players at the same position
Recent Examples of platoon from the Web
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First baseman Danny Valencia was so unproductive early in the season that the team briefly brought up Daniel Vogelbach to platoon at the position.
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Platooning all vehicles would also maximize existing highway real estate.
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Platooning him in left and leaving him down in the order may have been a better way of getting him re-acclimated to a 162-game season, but the commitment was made early and manager Joe Maddon stuck to his guns.
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And there's Rey, trading blows with Kylo Ren in what promises to be an experience that scales from individual skirmishes to platoon-sized assaults on up to explosive battalion-ish interstellar clashes.
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Franson, the shortstop, first baseman Raine Finley, and platooning second basemen Lauren Oberreiter and Kira Delgadillo were all seniors.
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While auto makers are trying to push self-driving cars into a faster gear, the money in trucking seems to be heading toward platooning.
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That’s because the Giants will have plenty of right-handed bench candidates to who could step in to platoon with him.
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With Wright out, the right-handed-hitting Wilmer Flores, who was originally going to platoon at first with Loney, will fill in full time at third.
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First Known Use of platoon
1963
PLATOON Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of platoon for English Language Learners
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: a group of soldiers that includes two or more squads usually led by one lieutenant
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: a group of people who are doing something together
PLATOON Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of platoon for Students
: a part of a military company usually made up of two or more squads
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