landing party


noun
  1. a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.

Origin of landing party

1
First recorded in 1890–95

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How to use landing party in a sentence

  • By that time, the Americans had assembled in sufficient force to defeat any landing party the enemy could send ashore.

  • The landing party—small as it was—had become separated into two groups; one commanded by Jones, the other by Wallingford.

  • Enter the Lieutenant with a landing party to capture the pirates.

    From Snotty to Sub | Wolstan Beaumont Charles Weld Forester
  • Then we jump to the landing-party wading through the breakers.

    Billy and the Big Stick | Richard Harding Davis
  • Their fire had ceased, and no men were to be seen in the fort; but they might have been lying in wait to attack any landing party.