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troop

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noun/tɹuːp//tɹʉwp//tɹup/
  1. 1

    A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).collective

    • That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
  2. 2

    A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).; A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.collective

  3. 3

    A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).; A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.collective

  4. 4

    A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).; A group of soldiers; military forces.collectivein-plural

    • Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
    • Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars.
  5. 5

    A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).; A company of actors; a troupe.collectivenonstandard

    • In order to form the new troop to a greater degree of perfection, the four principal actors were placed in the seminary of the cadets
  6. 6

    A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).; A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.collective

    • Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920), Aids To Scoutmastership, page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”
  7. 7

    An individual soldier or member of a military force; a trooper.broadlynonstandard

    • 2022, CNN, First Russian troop to speak out publicly against Putin’s war. Hear what he has to say (archived)
  8. 8

    A group of animals.; A group of primates (lemurs, monkeys and apes).collective

  9. 9

    A group of animals.; A group of meerkat families living together.collective

    • troop of meerkats is usually made up of two or three family groups.
  10. 10

    A group of mushrooms that are close but not close enough to be called a cluster.

verb/tɹuːp//tɹʉwp//tɹup/
  1. 1

    To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.

    • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last praye
  2. 2

    To march on; to go forward in haste.

  3. 3

    To move or march as if in a crowd.

    • The children trooped into the room.

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