divisions

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divisions

plural of division

divisions (uncountable)

(UK, naval) A formal parade of a ship's or shore establishment's company.
At the Britannia Royal Naval College, the Lord High Admiral's Divisions is a parade held in the presence of the monarch or her representative.

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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. Václav Havel

The Pope? How many divisions has he got? Joseph Stalin

Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise. Anthony Eden

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back? George S. Patton

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions. John Mearsheimer

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