BATTALIONS Synonyms

• an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies

• a large indefinite quantity

• an institution created to conduct business

• small military unit; usually two or three platoons

• the state of being with someone

• organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)

• a social or business visitor

• a social gathering of guests or companions

• a band of people associated temporarily in some activity

• crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship

• a unit of firefighters including their equipment

• be a companion to somebody

• a gathering of persons representative of some larger group

• a temporary military unit

• possible but not certain to occur

• being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

• uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances

• an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support

• a body of people associated together

• an army unit large enough to sustain combat

• one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole

• the act or process of dividing

• an administrative unit in government or business

• discord that splits a group

• a league ranked by quality

• (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

• (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

• a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

• a group of ships of similar type

• an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

• the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

• archaic terms for army

• association of ex-servicemen

• a large military unit

• a vast multitude

• amounting to a large indefinite number

• of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare

• characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military

• associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians

• the military forces of a nation

• a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant

• a team of policemen working under the military platoon system

• a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity

• army unit smaller than a division, which can be divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions.

• subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization

• form (military personnel) into a regiment

• assign to a regiment

• a smallest army unit

• a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

• a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime

• soldiers collectively

• any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

• an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole

• an organization regarded as part of a larger social group

• a single undivided whole

• a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else

• an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

• an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army

• a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony

• serve as a soldier in the military

• a collection of objects laid on top of each other

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a car that is old and unreliable

• bestow in large quantities

• arrange in stacks

• fill to overflow

• a vast multitude

• a nomadic community

• a moving crowd

• weight to be borne or conveyed

• a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time

• goods carried by a large vehicle

• an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate

• the power output of a generator or power plant

• an onerous or difficult concern

• a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks

• the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

• electrical device to which electrical power is delivered

• fill or place a load on

• provide (a device) with something necessary

• transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory

• put (something) on a structure or conveyance

• corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

• (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

• the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

• a musical setting for a Mass

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite

• an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

• a body of matter without definite shape

• the common people generally

• the property of something that is great in magnitude

• formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole

• join together into a mass or collect or form a mass

• a large indefinite quantity

• a large gathering of people

• the common people generally