laager
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
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(in Africa) a camp, esp one defended by a circular formation of wagons
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military a place where armoured vehicles are parked
verb
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to form (wagons) into a laager
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(tr) to park (armoured vehicles) in a laager
Etymology
Origin of laager
1840–50; < Afrikaans laer, earlier lager; cognate with German Lager camp. See lair 1
Example Sentences
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The ancestors of the white Afrikaners, 19th century Dutch settlers, had their own response to overwhelming danger: circling their wagons in an impenetrable laager.
From Time ● Feb. 28, 2013
The essence of Pistorius' argument is unyielding defense of his laager.
From Time ● Feb. 28, 2013
Pistorius lives on a golf estate, which exemplifies all the elements of "semigration" to gated communities and the laager mentality after apartheid.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013
Last week the South African government went into a new kind of laager.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was so anxious about his wife that he left the column at Charter and has come down here to stay in laager and look after her.”
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
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