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say it: pluh-TOON
platoon is a noun meaning "a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a team of policemen working under the military platoon system
a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity
“platoons of tourists poured out of the busses”
“the defensive platoon of the football team”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for platoon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.