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- noun Plural form of
emplacement .
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Examples
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Both ends of the anti-tank ditch contain emplacements for defending infantry.
West Lynn Avenue 2008
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Lots of gun emplacements from the Spanish-American War.
Theodore's World Wild Thing 2010
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Lots of gun emplacements from the Spanish-American War.
Theodore's World 2010
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In the eastern city of Brega, meantime, rebel reinforcements set up gun emplacements and antitank batteries.
Obama Says Gadhafi Must Quit, Sends Aircraft for Refugees Sam Dagher 2011
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Rebel reinforcements set up gun emplacements and antitank batteries.
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Mr. Winters led a small group of men on a raid of German cannon emplacements above Utah beach on Normandy's coastline.
Dick Winters dies; WWII hero commanded 'Band of Brothers' T. Rees Shapiro 2011
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Close off half the continent behind barbed wire and gun emplacements.
Matthew Yglesias » A Stimulus Plan in Case We Ever Get Really Desperate and Insane 2009
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Anti-Gadhafi forces consolidated their westernmost positions in the oil-refinery town of Brega on Thursday with gun emplacements and antitank batteries, a day after repulsing an offensive by pro-Gadhafi forces.
Fear Stalks the Streets of Gadhafi's Capital Margaret Coker 2011
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A U.N. diplomat said they would be used to defend against pro-Gbagbo mortar emplacements surrounding the hotel.
U.N. Adds 2,000 Troops in Ivory Coast Joe Lauria 2011
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Indicative of how dangerous it became were the physical changes that took place over the course of the war at the Baghdad bureau of the New York Times, which gradually morphed into a fortress festooned with searchlights and machine gun emplacements on its roof, surrounded by concrete blast walls, a foot thick and twenty feet high, protected by forty armed guards.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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