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- noun Plural form of
barrack . - noun A group of
buildings used bymilitary personnel ashousing - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
barrack .
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Examples
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Most people are living in either tents or what they call her barracks which are temporary houses made out of very thin plywood.
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They come for one-week periods and stay in barracks at the group's headquarters in a cavernous former hardware store just a few blocks from the shore.
Five years after Katrina, volunteers rebuild Bay St. Louis 2010
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Mr. KUEFFNER: No. Actually, he went to speak to them, to one of the main barracks here in Quito, the capital.
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Prisoners were housed, according to nationality, in barracks in sections joined together and separated by the surrounding barbed wire.
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Again, your cognitive disconnect — all the same things that can happen with ‘open’ homosexuals can happen with ‘closeted’ ones or even without any at all — most sexual harassment in mono-gender barracks is between heterosexual males (again do you have no locker room experience at all?)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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It is the Jail, Juvenile or other wise and in barracks as U S A has to recognise it and every where as a biological need or as psychological console.
Global Voices in English » India: Court Ruling Decriminalizes Gay Sex 2009
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Mr. KUEFFNER: No. Actually, he went to speak to them, to one of the main barracks here in Quito, the capital.
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Again, your cognitive disconnect — all the same things that can happen with ‘open’ homosexuals can happen with ‘closeted’ ones or even without any at all — most sexual harassment in mono-gender barracks is between heterosexual males (again do you have no locker room experience at all?)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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In some countries, AJR use rates from soldiers at peace in barracks, while in others, they use rates from soldiers on campaign.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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In some countries, AJR use rates from soldiers at peace in barracks, while in others, they use rates from soldiers on campaign.
The World's Greatest Instrument is still a Gibson Les Paul! 2008
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