Usually means: Stationing troops for defense purposes.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word garrisoning:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. garrisoning: Merriam-Webster
  2. garrisoning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. garrisoning: Vocabulary.com
  4. garrisoning: Wordnik
  5. garrisoning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. garrisoning: Wiktionary
  7. Garrisoning, garrisoning: Dictionary.com
  8. Garrisoning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Garrisoning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. garrisoning: FreeDictionary.org
  11. garrisoning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. garrisoning: Legal dictionary

(Note: See garrison as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Garrison)

noun:  A permanent military post.
noun:  The troops stationed at such a post.
noun:  (allusive) Occupants.
noun:  (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.
verb:  To assign troops to a military post.
verb:  To convert into a military fort.
verb:  To occupy with troops.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
noun:  A city in Benton County, Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lewis County, Kentucky.
noun:  A census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland.
noun:  A city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri.
noun:  A census-designated place in Powell County, Montana.
noun:  A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
noun:  A hamlet in Putnam County, New York.
noun:  A small city in McLean County, North Dakota.
noun:  A small city in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah.
▸ Also see garrison


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