Thesaurus results for BATTALION

battalion

noun

bə-ˈtal-yən

as in army

a large body of men and women organized for land warfare the nation's battalions were forced to fight on two fronts simultaneously

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Recent Examples on the Web Couch is from the Knox County area and served in the National Guard for four years in an engineer battalion, Laurel County Sheriff's Captain Richard Dalrymple said. —

Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2024 The frigate battalion fought around Kharkiv in northern Ukraine before shifting to the Pokrovsk axis in the east. —

David Axe, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024 Now, Israel’s military leaders say that the IDF needs 15 additional battalions, or about 10,000 soldiers, to be able to address current and pending missions, including the ability to carry out simultaneous offensives on several fronts. —

Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2024 The fire was believed to have been ignited by a faulty bee smoker, according to Jim Black, a battalion chief with the Modesto Fire Department. —

Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for battalion

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