encampment

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1. encampment - Noun

2. Encampment - Proper noun

Meaning

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.

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Examples

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued. William Henry Ashley

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. Barbara Ehrenreich

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season. William Henry Ashley

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment. William Henry Ashley

wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling Source: Internet

After finding the Separatist encampment, Obi-Wan fights Grievous and eventually kills the cyborg with a blaster after failing to overcome him in hand-to-hand combat. Source: Internet

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