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forced marches

forced marches is the plural of forced march.

Meaning of forced march

Noun

forced march (plural forced marches)

  1. A movement on foot by soldiers or prisoners of war, who must, in order to satisfy a military requirement, travel at a speed or in adverse conditions that would normally tire them excessively.
    • I did not believe this possible because of the distance and the condition of the roads, which was bad; besides, troops after a forced march of twenty miles are not in a good condition for fighting the moment they get through.1885, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 28, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant^(http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=3270...

Questions about forced marches

What is forced marches the plural of?
Forced marches is the plural of forced march.

Words near forced marches in the dictionary

  1. forced laborer
  2. forced laborers
  3. forced labour
  4. forced landing
  5. forced march
  6. forced marches
  7. forced medicine
  8. forced meme
  9. forced memes
  10. forced one's way
  11. forced out

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