barracks

/ ˈbærəks /

plural noun

1. a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel
2. any large building used for housing people, esp temporarily
3. a large and bleak building

Word History and Origins

Origin of barracks¹

C17: from French baraque , from Old Catalan barraca hut, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

These include collecting and communicating information useful to an enemy, namely Iran; collecting the names of Special Forces soldiers that would be useful for terrorism and perpetrating a bomb hoax at his army barracks.

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These are collecting and communicating information useful to an enemy, namely Iran; collecting the names of Special Forces soldiers that would be useful for terrorism and perpetrating a bomb hoax at his army barracks.

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Two sites in Worcestershire - a former Army barracks and a field outside the village of Drakes Broughton - and a woodland in the Quantock Hills, Somerset, have also been searched in the hunt for Ms Lamplugh's body.

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He also told the jury that the fake bomb that he left on the desk of his barracks when he absconded from there in January 2022 was not designed to frighten anyone.

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He also denies taking a list of special forces soldiers that could be useful to terrorists, perpetrating a bomb hoax at his barracks and escaping from Wandsworth Prison.

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