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platoon
[ pluh-toon ]
noun
- a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
- a small unit of a police force.
- a company or group of persons:
a platoon of visitors.
- Football. a group of players specially trained in one aspect of the game, as offense or defense, and used as a unit:
a halfback on the offensive platoon.
verb (used with object)
- Sports.
- to use (a player) at a position in a game alternately with another player or players.
- to alternate (two different teams or units), as separate offensive and defensive squads.
verb (used without object)
- Sports.
- to alternate at a position with another player or players.
- to use players alternately at the same position.
- to alternate different teams.
platoon
/ ±è±ôəˈ³Ù³ÜË²Ô /
noun
- military a subunit of a company usually comprising three sections of ten to twelve men: commanded by a lieutenant
- a group or unit of people, esp one sharing a common activity, characteristic, etc
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of platoon1
Example Sentences
With the RPF in power, Makenga was absorbed into the official Rwandan army and rose to the rank of sergeant and deputy platoon commander.
The department is staffed by three 24-hour shifts, or platoons, of firefighters.
In the meantime, Kim could take over Lux’s role at second base, at least as a platoon option against right-handed pitching.
The youngest member of the Home Guard platoon in Dad's Army, one of the BBC's best-loved sitcoms.
"Among the terrorists eliminated in the strike was the Islamic Jihad terrorist Ahmad Bakr al-Louh, who previously served as a platoon commander in the Islamic Jihad's Central Camps Brigade," it alleged, without providing any evidence.
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