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encampment n

(countable) (often military) A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite. (figurative) A place where people or things stay temporarily. (by extension, archaeology) An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort. (by extension, Freemasonry, obsolete) A meeting of Freemasons. (uncountable) The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp. Today, the date in 1918 when hostilities in World War I ceased, is observed as Remembrance Day in many countries to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty.

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