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loose order

noun

  1. military a formation in which soldiers, units, etc, are widely separated from each other
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Colonel Knox gave an order for his men to form loose order and gallop, and thus they got out of danger with not a man hit.

The Mamelukes came on in somewhat loose order, their line extending to, perhaps, twice the width of the square.

At the moment when the detachment, which was marching in rather loose order, reached the rancho, the monk dismounted.

The Arabs, expecting to gain an easy victory, advanced in loose order to the attack.

They were in loose order, but the movement was plainly concerted, with all the look of a vernal migration.

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