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- noun Plural form of
encampment .
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Examples
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The Chicago Tribune reported in 2004 that Bush administration military planners were moving forward with plans for "constructing 14 enduring bases, long-term encampments for the thousands of American troops."
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Core houses would be preferable to tents that are often set up after disasters and intended as transitional shelters, but which end up being miserable, long-term encampments, he said.
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They don’t live on bases or in encampments apart from civilians, to prevent civilian casualties.
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The frequency with which they change their encampments is another point.
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And not just thieves; the gatherings that sprung up every night in the encampments were the loudest he had heard yet in this land, and the religious meetings often turned into drunken orgies once the Hermit had retired for the night.
Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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The frequency with which they change their encampments is another point.
Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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The post-Microsoft world is just as likely to be a chaotic nightmare, full of competing vendor fiefdoms and walled technology encampments -- in other words, a return to the real Dark Ages of PC hardware.
LXer Linux News 2010
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Other people living in ragtag encampments around Port-au-Prince have complained that no food has reached them.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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Other people living in ragtag encampments around Port-au-Prince have complained that no food has reached them.
Signs of the Times 2010
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But increasingly, the encampments are the way many Americans experience the war.
ModerateVoters.org 2009
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