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n. A subdivision of a company of troops consisting of two or more squads or sections and usually commanded by a lieutenant.

n. A group of people working, traveling, or assembled together: a platoon of firefighters; buses carrying platoons of tourists.

n. Sports A group of players within a team, especially a football team, that is trained and sent into or withdrawn from play as a unit: the defensive platoon.

v. To play (a player) in alternation with another player in the same position: platooned the two catchers.

verb-intransitive. To use alternate players at the same position.

verb-intransitive. To take turns playing a position with another player.

n. A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.

v. To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher

n. Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.

n. Now, in the United States service, half of a company.

n. A small body of soldiers or musketeers, drawn out of a battalion of foot to form a hollow square to strengthen the angles of some military formation or position; or, a small body acting together, but separate from the main body.

n. A number of soldiers, as large as is convenient for drill, etc., drawn up in two ranks, usually from 15 to 25 in each rank; hence (since a company of infantry is habitually divided into two platoons), half of a company considered as a separate body.

n. a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant

n. a team of policemen working under the military platoon system

n. a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity

"That's because there isn't one specific focal character; if anything, the platoon is the focal character."

platooned    platooning    platoons   

army unit    police squad    squad    social group   

platoon firing    platoon system   

body    act   

Bethune    Boone    Calhoun    June    Karun    Kuhn    Moon    Noone    Rangoon    Sassoon   

battalion    squad    squadron    detachment    echelon    infantry    patrol    headquarters    reconnaissance    personnel