barrack

[US]/'bærək/
[UK]/'bærək/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. temporary housing or buildings for soldiers, barracks, workshops
vt. provide temporary housing or buildings for
vi. stay in temporary housing or buildings

Phrases & Collocations

military barrack

barrack room

barrack inspection

barrack accommodation

barrack life

Example Sentences

that great barrack of a house.

the cold, impersonal barrack-room.

take a right turn into Barracks Lane.

They barracked throughout the meeting.

their confinement to army barracks

I take it you'll be barrack-ing for Labour tonight?.

Delhi was first and foremost a barracks town.

cadets forming up in the barracks quad.

the rugged conditions of barracks life.

The bombing turned the barracks into a charnel house.

The barracks was surrounded by a high wall.

Platoon sergeants fell their men in on the barrack square.

The barracks of the government force was attacked by the revolting soldiers.

when they go back to the barracks, the single men get smashed.

policed the barracks; policing up one's room.

opponents barracked him when he addressed the opening parliamentary session.

Police of the barracks must be completed before inspection can take place.

Real-world Examples

Dickson was killed in an ambush his barrack last week.

Source: AP Listening October 2014 Collection

The British soldiers left their barracks 15 hours ago.

Source: America The Story of Us

Protesters had marched on a militia's barracks on Saturday demanding its dissolution. Rana Jawad reports.

Source: BBC Listening Collection June 2013

Sparta might have had more barracks and training grounds, while Athens might have had more schools.

Source: Tales of Imagination and Creativity

The accusations include spying, inciting the killing of protesters, attacking military barracks and damaging the economy.

Source: BBC Listening Collection July 2013

A Swiss organization is raising money to build the new housing center – also called a barracks.

Source: VOA Special English: World

Throughout Vnezuela, people will gather military barracks to ask soldiers for their help in the aid effort.

Source: BBC Listening Collection February 2019

Barracks are a little bit bleak, but that recidivism rate is to die for!

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 1

You are in the Baird school, not a barracks.

Source: Classic movies

And I remember those barracks and storing those feelings and those memories away to eventually write about them.

Source: PBS Interview Social Series

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