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ORBAT

ORBAT is the acronym of order of battle.

Meaning of order of battle

Noun

order of battle (plural orders of battle)

  1. The arrangement of units or other divisions of the armed forces in combat; specifically, the deployment plans of an enemy, or a written record of this.
    • Working for the Resistance, Challe, a regular airman, had skilfully obtained the Luftwaffe order-of-battle on the eve of D-Day and transmitted it to London, for which he was awarded the British D.S.O.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 311

Questions about ORBAT

What is ORBAT the acronym of?
ORBAT is the acronym of order of battle.

Words near ORBAT in the dictionary

  1. Orban
  2. Orbanisation
  3. Orbanism
  4. Orbanization
  5. Orbanomics
  6. ORBAT
  7. orbate
  8. orbatide
  9. orbatides
  10. orbation
  11. Orbaugh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ORBAT (page history and authors); order of battle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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