Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milit., the formation of column from line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of
deployment .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military The act or movement of forming a
column from a line oftroops on some designatedsubdivision ; the opposite ofdeployment .
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Examples
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Instead, it produced a virus known as "long-term unem ployment."
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Artists often address pressing social ills that affect young people from South Africa's still impoverished black townships: unem-ployment, violence, crime, racism.
Kwaito Blows Up 2008
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"It's a Dole plot to raise the unem - ployment rate in time for the election," one staff - er joked.
Dress-Down Dole 2008
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The euro doesn't address Europe's two main economic problems: high unem-ployment and expensive welfare states, threatened by aging populations.
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Unem,ployment in the United States ia around 11%, rightard clown.
Think Progress » O’Reilly’s Plan For Iraq: Stop Being ‘This Crazy Country’ 2006
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Atturniship, and that he had more millions of Crownes, then all his life time would serve him to spend; beside those which he payed away dayly, as having no convenient im-ployment for them.
The Decameron 2004
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COSATU's general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi was recently quot - ed as saying that he was opposed to plans to introduce inflation targeting because a lower inflation rate could mean high unem - ployment.
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Worst-off were black non-urban women with an expanded unem - ployment rate of 59.6% in 1998.
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They also had to have taken steps to look for work or to start some form of self-em - ployment in the four weeks prior to the interview.
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The community, social and personal services industry was the largest contributor (31.2%) to total formal non-agricultural em - ployment in December 1999, followed by the manufacturing industry
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