garrison
gar|ri|son /g'ærɪsən/ (garrisons garrisoning garrisoned)
1 [N-COUNT-COLL]
A garrison is a group of soldiers whose task is to guard the town or building where they live.
...a five-hundred man French army garrison.
2 [N-COUNT]
A garrison is the buildings which the soldiers live in.
The approaches to the garrison have been heavily mined.
3 [VERB] V n, be V-ed, V-ed
To garrison a place means to put soldiers there in order to protect it. You can also say that soldiers are garrisoned in a place.
British troops still garrisoned the country...
No other soldiers were garrisoned there.
...the large, heavily garrisoned towns.
1 [N-COUNT-COLL]
A garrison is a group of soldiers whose task is to guard the town or building where they live.
...a five-hundred man French army garrison.
2 [N-COUNT]
A garrison is the buildings which the soldiers live in.
The approaches to the garrison have been heavily mined.
3 [VERB] V n, be V-ed, V-ed
To garrison a place means to put soldiers there in order to protect it. You can also say that soldiers are garrisoned in a place.
British troops still garrisoned the country...
No other soldiers were garrisoned there.
...the large, heavily garrisoned towns.