garrison🔊

A permanent military post.

The troops stationed at such a post.

Occupants.

(US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.

To assign troops to a military post.

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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 the bastions.

Washington Irving, A History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty

To convert into a military fort.

To occupy with troops.

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