Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - dragoon
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I. noun Etymology: French dragon dragon, ~, from Middle French Date: 1604 1. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed mounted troops 2. cavalryman II. transitive verb Date: 1689 1. to subjugate or persecute by harsh use of troops 2. to force into submission or compliance especially by violent measures ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a cavalryman (orig. a mounted infantryman armed with a carbine). 2 a rough fierce fellow. 3 a variety of pigeon. --v.tr. 1 (foll. by into) coerce into doing something, esp. by use of strong force. 2 persecute, esp. with troops. Etymology: orig. = carbine (thought of as breathing fire) f. F dragon DRAGON ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. драгун D. Guards —- воен. гвардейские драгуны (в английской армии) 2. грубый, необузданный человек 3. порода домашних голубей 4. посылать карательную экспедицию 5. принуждать силой to dragoon smb. into doing smth. —- заставить кого-л. сделать что-л. угрозами и т. п. he was dragooned for a work crew in the occupied zone —- он был насильно угнан на работы в оккупированной зоне dragoon-bird 1. зоол. хохлатый головач (Cephalopterus ornatus) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun mil. драгун 2. v. 1) посылать карательную экспедицию 2) принуждать силой also joc. (into) It was easy in those days to dragoon the younger children into helping with the farm work. ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n a soldier in past times who rode a horse and carried a gun and sword ~2 v dragoon sb into sth phr v to force someone to do something they do not want to do (dragoon sb into doing sth) (Monica was dragooned into being on the management committee.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1622, from Fr. dragon "carbine, musket," because the guns the soldiers carried "breathed fire" like a dragon. The verb is from 1689, lit. "to force by the agency of dragoons" (which were used by the Fr. kings to persecute Protestants). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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