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noun

Definition of barracksnext
as in residence
a building or group of buildings typically used to house soldiers The soldier was moved to a different barracks. He was confined to barracks for insubordination.

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barracks

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verb

present tense third-person singular of barrack
1
as in targets

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as in rooms

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barracks
  1. residence
  2. garrison
  3. house
  4. fort
  5. camp
  6. place
  7. cantonment
  8. encampment
Noun
  • What To Know Deputies with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office responded to a residence for a reported family disturbance at around 4:15 a.m. on Friday.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Barely three months after Julie Wainwright put her strikingly modern residence in a prime pocket of Beverly Hills up for sale at nearly $12 million, the founder and former CEO of The RealReal has already offloaded the property.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of residence
Noun
  • Once Timmerman was turned over to the U.S. military personnel at At Tanf garrison, he was flown by a U.S. military helicopter into Jordan, the official added.
    Matt Seyler, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • So troops at the U.S. garrison can try and disrupt those shipments.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of garrison
Noun
  • Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago estimated that Kate and Peter, whose house was also home to their five kids, would have had an income of $305,000 in 1990, or over $730,000 today, The New York Times reported in 2023.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Hall has been living at the house since their split in July.
    Ashley Hume, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of house
Noun
  • At even strength, the Canucks held the fort down defensively without Hughes.
    Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The star’s family and A-list friends have been fixtures at her Eras Tour shows since the beginning, with mom Andrea, dad Scott and brother Austin mingling with fans and holding down the fort in the VIP tent.
    Rachel DeSantis, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of fort
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  • Instead, such measures will disrupt our economy, raise our living costs, create internment camps to hold immigrants in the U.S. because receiving countries will not accept them, and fuel instability abroad, leading to even more immigration pressures at our borders.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Attempts to combat the issue broadly fall into two camps: prevention and detection.
    Chris Hall, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of camp
Noun
  • New York City, like Ohio and Philadelphia, is another place that was slammed early by fentanyl.
    Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Without clear processes in place, tasks began to overlap, communication fell apart, and the team spent more time untangling confusion than delivering orders.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of place
Noun
  • And the cynicism of the reforms was exposed by the regime's unwillingness to extend them to military cantonment areas or to the federal capital.
    Ilhan Niaz, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2012
  • The military has established large cantonments in Tamil areas, treating civilians with a heavy hand.
    William McGowan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2012
Definition of cantonment
Noun
  • Lurie was able to tap into voter disillusionment over brazen retail theft, crime, open-air drug dens, and homeless encampments that made residents fearful and businesses flee.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Yes, but: Valley cities that have taken steps to crack down on homeless encampments have largely done so as a result of the Grants Pass decision, not Proposition 312.
    Jeremy Duda, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
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