Definition of "troop"

troop

/tɹuːp/

noun
plural troops
1. (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
  Quotations
  That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii]
2. (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
3. A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
4. (chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
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  Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i], page 147, column 2
  Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]
  His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
5. (nonstandard) An individual soldier or member of a military force.
  Quotations
  One American M48 was slightly grazed and one American troop lightly wounded.
  2018 August 8, Donald R. White, Death In a Lonely Place, Lulu.com, page 82
  Although the mission failed, at least 5 ISIL militants were killed, however 1 American troop was wounded. According to the reports, Jordan had a role in the operation and that one Jordanian soldier had been wounded as well.
  , Victor Grant-Lawrence, Conspiracy Theories And Stuff, Lulu.com
6. (nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.
  Quotations
  In order to form the new troop to a greater degree of perfection, the four principal actors were placed in the seminary of the cadets
  1784, William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark
7. (scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
8. (collective) A group of baboons.
9. A group of meerkat families living together.
10. A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
11. (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
verb
third-person singular simple present troops, present participle trooping, simple past and past participle trooped
1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
  Quotations
  Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
2. To march on; to go forward in haste.
3. To move or march as if in a crowd.

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