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extended order drill

extended order drill noun: practice in battle formations and maneuvers.

Noun

extended order drill (countable and uncountable, plural extended order drills)

  1. Practice in battle formations and maneuvers.
    • The land now owned by the Government is too small for extended order drills and maneuvers and General Wood was very desirous of securing more room.1977, Frank Everson Vandiver, Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing, →ISBN
    • To account for the exigencies of terrain, extended order drill was practised on different types of ground in platoon, company, or battalion-sized formations.2008, Andrew Iarocci, Shoestring Soldiers: The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915, →ISBN, page 36

Forms of extended order drill

pluralextended order drills
alternative formextended-order drill

Questions about extended order drill

What does extended order drill mean?
Extended order drill means practice in battle formations and maneuvers.
What part of speech is extended order drill?
Extended order drill is a noun.
What is the plural of extended order drill?
The plural of extended order drill is extended order drills.

Words near extended order drill in the dictionary

  1. extended keyboards
  2. extended memory
  3. extended metaphor
  4. extended metaphors
  5. extended one's hand
  6. extended order drill
  7. extended periodic table
  8. extended periodic tables
  9. extended phenotype
  10. extended phenotypes
  11. extended play

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