fighting unit

collocation in English

meaningsoffightingandunit

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fighting
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfaɪ.tɪŋ/us
/ˈfaɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
the act of people fighting, especially in ...
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unit
noun
uk
/ˈjuː.nɪt/us
/ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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(Definition offightingandunitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffighting unit

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Probably they would not be put in afightingunit.
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I think thefightingunitis the equivalent of the flying squadron.
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That will permit him to operate as an effectivefightingunit.
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I have the good fortune to visit the establishment of afightingunittwice a week.
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It is everything that one would expect of a superbfightingunit.
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It is not correct to consider a batman as not being afightingunit.
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The truth is, of course, that this is not afightingunitat all.
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We should see that those particular auxiliary services are maintained, even at the expense of thefightingunit.
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Thefightingunit, whether a regiment, battalion or a ship, needs to have its people readily accessible.
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They do not come into the picture at all, because they will not be in anyfightingunit.
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The ship took some six weeks to work up, and then she had to go into service as afightingunit.
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We are trying to build up a skeleton force which can be magnified in the event of war into a largerfightingunit.
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He is recorded as having been initiated there and inducted into an "ibutho lempi" (fightingunit).
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To be an effectivefightingunit, they can not be distracted by her gender either.
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A number of pilots and observers were assigned and it prepared to become afightingunit.
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What will this do to the tight mateship so critical to afightingunit?
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Despite these initial disadvantages, the ship's company gains hard experience and becomes an effectivefightingunit.
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He set about turning the 19th division into an efficientfightingunit, purging the senior officers.
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Pilots learned bow to work with the observers and to make the plane afightingunit.
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The new mainfightingunitwas the brigade, only organised in wartime (with a few exceptions).
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He must be told why, because the whole of the modern ship is a giganticfightingunitin which every piece of equipment reacts on every other.
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I should like to know whether it would be in order for the trustees to make grants towards the maintenance of refugees who are in afightingunit.
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It is the standard of thefightingunitthat is more appropriately identified as a memorial, bearing as it does the battle honours of the unit.
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