(n.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
(n.) A variety of pigeon.
(v. t.) To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
(v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strange memories will be triggered by North Korea’s stunningly effective fatwah against the Hollywood movie The Interview, in which James Franco and Seth Rogen play two dopey guys dragooned by the CIA into an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-un.
(2) Plenty of Tories had plainly been dragooned into supporting the Gove policy in the Gove absence.
(3) The soldier from the Light Dragoons cavalry regiment died on Saturday during an operation in the Nahri Saraj district of Helmand province.
(4) Historic regiments that have been spared include the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the Queen's Dragoon Guards, Royal Dragoon Guards, the Rifles and the Parachute Regiment.
(5) He joined the Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards because it was the same regiment as Lisa’s father.
(6) The Russians dragooned some 75,000 Latvians into their ranks, the Germans conscripted about 150,000.
(7) Sgt Maj Robert Mansel, 37, from Swansea, of 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards, lost comrades in earlier tours and is relieved to be returning from this one without any casualties.
(8) We appear to possess an almost limitless ability to sit back and watch as political life is seized by plutocrats; as the biosphere is trashed; as public services are killed or given to corporations; as workers are dragooned into zero-hours contracts.
(9) Our country has a phenomenal future and people are waking up to that.” “Whatever his merits as a former prime minister, this is the guy who would have taken our country into the euro, this is the guy who dragooned our country into the Iraq war on a completely false prospectus with consequences foreign ministers here [at the G20 summit] are still trying to deal with,” he said.
(10) Turnbull was in charge of the civil service at the start of the Iraq war: on his watch the evidence in the notorious dossier was used to dragoon public support.
(11) We're also going to see a return of Xbox title Phantom Dust, a card-based action strategy romp developed for the original Xbox by Panzer Dragoon creator, Yukio Futatsugi .
(12) The Ministry of Defence said 60 Light Dragoons, based at the Swanton Morley Army base in Norfolk, were helping with the effort.
(13) The Ministry of Defence said 60 Light Dragoons, based at the Swanton Morley Army base in Norfolk, were involved.
(14) Under the punitive regime of Iain Duncan Smith at the Department of Work and Pensions, hundreds of thousands are being dragooned to work for free, often for months at a time, for private companies, local authorities and charities.
(15) Confined to the classroom, stuffed with rules and facts, dragooned into endless tests: there could scarcely be a better formula for ensuring that they become bored and disaffected.
(16) • Historic regiments spared include the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the Queen's Dragoon Guards, Royal Dragoon Guards, the Rifles and the Parachute Regiment.
(17) Garland, from the Queen's Dragoon Guards, was in a coma for three and a half weeks and had half of his neck muscles removed but returned to work after nine months.
(18) The units represented are the Royal Gurkha Rifles, the Mercian Regiment, the Royal Dragoon Guards and the Parachute Regiment, and he also wears the army air corps tie.
(19) This man, a lieutenant colonel who was at the time commanding the Queen's Dragoon Guards, identified at the inquiry by the cipher SO09, said that he regarded what he saw to be both wrong and illegal.
(20) This strikes me as a rather patronising argument, this contention that Len McCluskey of Unite or Paul Kenny of the GMB will be able to dragoon individual trade unionists to all vote the same way.
Soldier
Definition:
(n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
(n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
(n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.
(n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
(n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
(v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
(v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(2) But in a country with an unemployment rate of nearly 70%, including many former child soldiers, there are no certainties.
(3) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(4) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(5) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
(6) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(7) Bill O’Reilly has told different versions of an encounter at gunpoint that he claims to have experienced while reporting in Argentina – one involving a single armed soldier and the other detailing several troops.
(8) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(9) Eleven US soldiers have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
(10) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(11) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
(12) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(13) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
(14) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(15) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(16) One hundred fifty-two cases among active duty Army soldiers were identified.
(17) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(18) We talked of his time as a soldier in the first world war.
(19) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(20) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".