army barracks

collocation in English

meaningsofarmyandbarracks

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army
noun
uk
/ˈɑː.mi/us
/ˈɑːr.mi/
a particular country's ...
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barracks
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈbær.əks/us
/ˈber.əks/
a building or group of buildings where ...
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(Definition ofarmyandbarracksfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Foreign professional soldiers lived inarmybarracks, but also in private houses scattered across town.
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What will happen inarmybarracks, where, very often, soldiers cut each other's hair?
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Responsibility for investigating unnatural deaths atarmybarrackslies with the appropriate civil police authorities.
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Nobody has ever managed to establish whether even issues like building hospitals orarmybarracksare capital spending and investment, or current spending.
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In 2007, a group of armed men attacked anarmybarracks.
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It has an airstrip and anarmybarracks.
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Most of them were junior officers, living in thearmybarracks.
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He established cantonments,armybarracksand gave military training to the troops.
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Previously it was used as a boy's school, anarmybarracksand a hospital.
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It was destroyed in 1810 when lightning struck hit it while used as ammunition depot for nearbyarmybarracks.
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The ammunition was intended for use while travelling to thearmybarracksin case of invasion.
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This is often used in places that need the floors cleaned regularly, such asarmybarracksor the meat departments in supermarkets.
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Housed in a desertedarmybarracks, the fair exhibits the work of over 100 artists from around the world, working in all disciplines.
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Two of thearmybarrackswere destroyed, and the local waterworks and telephone lines were temporarily disabled.
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The airbase became anarmybarracksin 1975; on its closure in 1999 most of the housing was sold to private owners.
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It was also used for a time as anarmybarracks.
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After suppression of the monastery in 1797, the monastery and church becamearmybarracksin 1859.
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He builtarmybarracksall around his house.
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The store was an oldarmybarrackslater converted into a shop.
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