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
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
Mrs Skeffington-Smythe was rapidly making a calculation of the likely accommodation in the laager.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
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