landing party
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4.9
- noun
:
grupo de desembarco
- The commander called for a landing party to secure the beachhead before the main troops arrived.
- send a landing party
- landing party ashore
Examples
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Their rescue had been close; none of the landing party had had a sip of water for nearly twenty-four hours.
Fiction book (2001) -
The landing party from the Enterprise, consisting of Captain Kirk, Scotty, Bones, and Spock, beamed down onto the surface of the strange new unexplored world.
Fiction book (2001) -
Then you can pick a landing party.
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"It's left over from our landing party."
Fiction book (1999) -
A landing party will be sent out after due time.
Fiction book (2002) -
I say we prepare a landing party.
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The landing party will be divided into four groups.
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The landing party remained on the Kalandan station.
Fiction book (2001) -
Most of the crew struggled ashore and were taken prisoner by a landing party from the destroyer.
Blog text (25) -
For a moment, all merged in brilliant colors as the landing party filed shoreward along the jetty, the goose-stepping joker in blue-black and salmon, topped by cockscomb and bells, at the head of the line.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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1.4
A group of people who go somewhere together to do one activity
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group of people from a ship sent ashore' is directly derivable from combining 'landing' (the act of coming ashore or descending) and 'party' (a contingent or group). This is a compositional noun phrase following common patterns in English (and mirrored in many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Landing party comes from the simple picture of a small group: landing (coming onto the shore) and party (a group) leaving a ship to do a job on land. So, the phrase means 'a group sent ashore to do a task, for example to explore, help, or fight'.