rear echelon

rear echelon

noun
(in a military operation) the troops, officers, etc., removed from the combat zone and responsible for administration, matériel, etc.


Origin:
1930–35
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Rear echelon is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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