Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Milit., the formation of column from line.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mil.) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun military The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; the opposite of deployment.

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Examples

  • Instead, it produced a virus known as "long-term unem ployment."

    Obama and the Spending Volcano 2010

  • Artists often address pressing social ills that affect young people from South Africa's still impoverished black townships: unem-ployment, violence, crime, racism.

    Kwaito Blows Up 2008

  • "It's a Dole plot to raise the unem - ployment rate in time for the election," one staff - er joked.

    Dress-Down Dole 2008

  • The euro doesn't address Europe's two main economic problems: high unem-ployment and expensive welfare states, threatened by aging populations.

    The New Coin Of The Realm 2007

  • Unem,ployment in the United States ia around 11%, rightard clown.

    Think Progress » O’Reilly’s Plan For Iraq: Stop Being ‘This Crazy Country’ 2006

  • Atturniship, and that he had more millions of Crownes, then all his life time would serve him to spend; beside those which he payed away dayly, as having no convenient im-ployment for them.

    The Decameron 2004

  • COSATU's general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi was recently quot - ed as saying that he was opposed to plans to introduce inflation targeting because a lower inflation rate could mean high unem - ployment.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Worst-off were black non-urban women with an expanded unem - ployment rate of 59.6% in 1998.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • They also had to have taken steps to look for work or to start some form of self-em - ployment in the four weeks prior to the interview.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The community, social and personal services industry was the largest contributor (31.2%) to total formal non-agricultural em - ployment in December 1999, followed by the manufacturing industry

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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