garrison

Noun

garrison (plural garrisons)

1. A permanent military post.
2. The troops stationed at such a post.
   • My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […]
     Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […]
     And for the expedition of this war,
     If he thinke good, can from his garriſons,
     UUithdraw as many more to follow him.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
   • For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle
3. Occupants.
   • “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
4. (Space-Force, US) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.

   Synonyms:

   delta

Verb

garrison (third-person singular simple present garrisons, present participle garrisoning, simple past and past participle garrisoned)

1. To assign troops to a military post.
   • Nor was he content with thus strongly garrisoning the fort, but he likewise added exceedingly to its strength by furnishing it with a formidable battery of quaker guns—rearing a stupendous flag-staff in the centre which overtopped the whole city—and moreover by building a great windmill on one of...1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], chapter III, in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume I, New York, N.Y....
2. To convert into a military fort.
3. To occupy with troops.
   • 'Establishing a land bridge through Mariupol to Crimea would take tens of thousands of troops. So would garrisoning eastern Ukraine.', http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21615605-now-willing-use-russian-troops-more-or-less-openly-eastern-ukraine-vladimir-putin-has

Proper noun capitalized: Garrison

UK/ˈɡæɹɪ.sən/US/ˈɡæɹɪ.sən/

Garrison (countable and uncountable, plural Garrisons)

1. A surname.
2. A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
3. A city in Benton County, Iowa.
4. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lewis County, Kentucky.
5. A census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland.
6. A city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
7. An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri.
8. A census-designated place in Powell County, Montana.
9. A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
10. A hamlet in the town of Philipstown, Putnam County, New York.
11. A small city in McLean County, North Dakota.
12. A small city in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
13. An unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah.