"formation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But when the term was used for large military formations, it generally meant "detachment".
- These formations would then be used as a shock force or the vanguard for a larger formation.
- Most of these units were quickly amalgamated with larger formations.
- To the east is Cayley, a slightly larger but very similar formation.
- In non-Soviet ground forces the largest formation is the division (13 000 men).
- Bernier thought the three were part of a larger formation.
- The division was one of the largest formations on the western front.
- We use single agents and pairs, but the next largest formation is six.
- Small groups or individual units are deployed from a larger formation to achieve a specific objective and then return.
- The quarry exposed a large volcanic formation between 200 and 250 million years old.
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