Definition of "cantonment" [can•ton•ment]

• A group of temporary billets for troops. (noun)
• Assignment of troops to temporary quarters. (noun)
• A permanent military installation in India. (noun)

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• "Muyange is so far the only so-called cantonment camp that is operational thus far in Burundi."
• "The cantonment was a poor place for a garrison to be, without proper defences, with its principal stores outside its walls, and some of the principal officers - Burnes himself, for example - quartered two miles away in Kabul City."
• "The cantonment is the head quarters of the British army on this side the Deccan."