Usually means: Provide lodging for military personnel.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. barrack: Merriam-Webster
  2. barrack, barrack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barrack, barrack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barrack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barrack: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barrack, barrack: Wordnik
  7. barrack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Barrack, barrack: Wiktionary
  9. barrack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. barrack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. barrack: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Barrack, barrack: Dictionary.com
  13. barrack: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Barrack (disambiguation), Barrack (video game), Barrack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Barrack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. barrack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. barrack: Rhymezone
  18. Barrack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. barrack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. barrack: FreeDictionary.org
  21. barrack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Barrack: The Word Detective
  23. barrack: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. barrack: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. barrack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Barrack: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. barrack, barrack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Barrack: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
noun:  (by extension, chiefly in the plural) Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
noun:  (US) A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
noun:  (Ireland, colloquial, usually in the plural) A police station.
verb:  (transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
verb:  (intransitive) To live in barracks.
verb:  (British, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
verb:  (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A male given name.

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