cantonment

NOUN
  1. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
    wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
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How To Use cantonment In A Sentence

  • The magic-like upbuild of the cantonment, moreover, was the signal for the extension of the electric line to encircle the very center of the big military city, thus adding an additional link of convenience. The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces
  • The optimizing of cantonment guarantees strategies in combined operations is the premise to improve the cantonment guarantees effectiveness and benefits.
  • Each cantonment had its own workshops for servicing and repairing vehicles and its own crews of pioneers for servicing and repairing the road.
  • Upon their arrest Ershad and his wife were moved from the Army cantonment and confined to a diplomatic compound.
  • This included the construction, maintenance and repair of military roads, barracks and cantonments.
  • Having grown up in British cantonments as the son of an army officer, I knew how the British lived in India.
  • There is quite an eminence nearly a mile back of the new cantonment, which is called La Butte de Terre by the French, and Wudjuwong, [18] or Place of the Mountain, by the natives. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
  • The cantonments with their spacious suburbs of bungalows, military buildings, tennis courts and churches built by the British to distance themselves from the noises and smells of the cities and towns are still there.
  • The Quartermaster Corps, founded June 1775, was responsible for the construction of training cantonments and more permanent structured camps.
  • The cantonment is the head quarters of the British army on this side the Deccan. Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales
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