# troops

Pronunciation: say "TROOPS" /tɹuːps/

## Noun

1. Military personnel in uniform; soldiers serving in an armed force.
   - Simple: Soldiers in uniform who serve in an army or other military force.
   - _The defense secretary announced that 3,500 troops would be withdrawn from the region by spring._
   - _Families lined the runway to welcome the troops home from their deployment._
2. Plural of troop. — plural of troop
   - Simple: Plural of troop. Use it for more than one group of people or animals.
   - _Girl Scout troops from across the county gathered for the annual cookie kickoff._
   - _Researchers followed two rival troops of baboons for an entire dry season._

## Verb

3. Third-person singular simple present of troop. — third-person singular simple present indicative of troop
   - Simple: Third-person singular present of troop. Use it after he, she, it, or the name of one group.
   - _Each evening a crowd of tourists troops up the hill to watch the sunset from the old fort._
   - _The jury troops back into the courtroom, and the room falls silent._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/troops (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).