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 security estate--a walled-off cluster of houses protected by razor wire, electric fences, motion detectors and guards--is the 21st century 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
De Klerk and Mandela are hoping that all white South Africans have finally, permanently come out of the laager and into the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furthermore, we were all to be in laager before sundown every evening.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
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