artillery unit
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6.3
- noun
- /ɑrˈtɪləri ˈjunɪt/
- Specialized
:
unidad de artillería
- Significantly, no Sikh unit stationed in the Punjab mutinied (one infantry and one artillery unit were stationed there during the Golden Temple battle).
- field artillery unit
- army artillery unit
Examples
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Despite preparation as a Green Beret, he went to Vietnam as an artillery officer and served as an advisor to a South Vietnamese artillery unit.
Academic text (2001) -
After basic training, he was shipped to a field artillery unit in Alexander, La.
Blog text (25) -
Fire support was available as combat units were constantly within the range of the artillery units deployed in advance.
Academic text (2015) -
There is a heavy-weapons brigade, artillery units, and an engineering corps.
Academic text (1990) -
Israel has called up 16,000 reserve soldiers as tanks, infantry, and artillery units headed towards the Israel border with the Gaza Strip.
Blog text (7) -
An Israeli artillery unit fired one Tamuz guided missile at a Syrian artillery battery located two and a half miles inside Syria.
Blog text (5) -
During World War II, he served in an artillery unit equipped with heavy guns.
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After basic training, he was assigned to a field artillery unit stationed in the desert.
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The army's artillery unit provided crucial fire support during the battle.
Synonyms
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7.2
A large unit of soldiers made of several companies and led by a senior officer
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6.2
A large group of soldiers made of several smaller units
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3.2
A group of soldiers organized to fight or carry out military tasks
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6.8
A group in the army that uses large guns to support soldiers
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7.6
A group of guns placed together and used by soldiers in war
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2.8
A group of soldiers that does a specific task
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2.5
A group of soldiers organized as part of an army, like a platoon or company
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3.1
A unit of soldiers organized to do a specific job for the armed forces
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'artillery' names the branch/type of weaponry and 'unit' denotes a group, so an 'artillery unit' straightforwardly means a group equipped and trained to operate artillery. This noun + noun combination follows regular English composition patterns and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Artillery unit comes from a simple picture: soldiers working together to move and fire big, heavy guns. The word artillery once meant the heavy weapons and equipment, and unit means the group that operates them, so the phrase means a military group trained to use 'large, heavy guns'.