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 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
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
South African folklore contains proud tales of ''going into the laager.''
From Time Magazine Archive
As I returned from a visit to the women's laager Colonel Baden-Powell was lying in his easy-chair beneath the roof of the verandah of the Headquarters Office.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton
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