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UK
/tɹˈuːp/
]
[ US /ˈtɹup/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹup/ ]
NOUN
- a group of soldiers
- a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts
-
an orderly crowd
a troop of children - a cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company
VERB
-
move or march as if in a crowd
They children trooped into the room -
march in a procession
the veterans paraded down the street
How To Use troop In A Sentence
- And the vervet monkey, Larry, they're in troops of 50 to 100 to 200.
- In June 2004, the Post Exchange here was mortared, killing two Soldiers and wounding more than a dozen additional troops.
- Initially von Leeb, using troops borrowed from von Bock, was able to mount a concerted attack both on the defensive positions of the southern suburbs and the area north of the main rail line to Moscow, their objective being the historic village now a suburb of Schlüsselburg, right on Lake Ladoga. Deathride
- On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
- A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
- Similarly, the exaction of stiff reprisals for unexpected attacks on troops remote from the fighting front might cow the local population, or might stimulate them to more aggressive resistance.
- At the time Longstreet broke through his lines to attack his left wing, he was with the right-wing troops.
- What methods of signaling other troops will there be implemented in the game. eg. do you need a radio operator alive in your squad to communicate with other squads?
- Currently, the Italian-built Panthers are being finished off by BAE Systems, with the additional of a machine gun, radios and other accessories, when they will be delivered to the Army, effectively providing "battlefield limousines" for Ruperts – as officers are dismissively called – while troops are forced to patrol in dangerously vulnerable "Snatch" Land Rovers. Feeding the European fantasy
- Finishing the mission so our troops will not have died in vain is the most screwed up thing I have ever heard. Think Progress » 9%.