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to barrack

to barrack

6.8
To put people, especially soldiers, into a shared building to live
  • verb
  • /ˈbærək/
  • UK
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  • During the military exercise, the soldiers were barracked at the training facility for several weeks.

Examples

  • To prepare for the deployment, the units were quickly barracked in temporary accommodations.

  • According to one local, crime in Mos Eisley has become more and more rampant, and regionally barracked Stormtroopers need help wherever they can get it.

    Blog text (19)

  • The only discordant note was the presence of many soldiers, since their house was situated between the Finnish army barracks several blocks on one side and the Russian barracks several blocks away in the other direction.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The army will barrack the troops in a newly constructed base near the city.

Synonyms

to garrison
vsto barrack
2 7.7

To put soldiers in a fort or base to defend it

houses soldiers to provide living and sleeping space

Surface Forms

barrack infinitive
barracked past
barracked past participle
barracking present participle
barracks third person singular

Etymology

Barrack meaning 'to put people in housing' comes from an old French word baraque that meant 'hut' or 'simple building'. So to barrack people is to put them into those simple buildings, which is why it means 'to lodge' soldiers.