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What is a cantonment?

What is a cantonment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Temporary military living quarters.
  2. A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
  3. (India) A permanent military station.
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The second test of their commitment to making the transition was the comprehensive peace agreement and cantonment of combatants.
Yet, I am not permitted to enter certain restricted areas like the cantonment.
In the mid-1950s we stayed in a barrack of houses in the cantonment of Delhi.
But as water became scarce in the dry season, Maoists from the nearby cantonment started taking the water.
Early on the 15th General Baker, with 1200 infantry and eight guns, left the cantonment.
The barracks and cantonment areas of major army bases are fine for getting ready to communicate in urban combat.

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