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# detachment

«detachment» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small group of soldiers or workers sent off to do a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (detachments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A detachment is a small group of soldiers or workers sent off to do a special job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detachment/#m1)

2) Detachment is a calm feeling of not being involved or caring too much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detachment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a leader splits an army into small groups, each sent to a different place or task.

### examples

- The captain sent a detachment of ten soldiers to guard the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detachment/#x1)
- Each detachment marched to its own hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detachment/#x2)
- She watched the quarrel with calm detachment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detachment/#x3)

### note

a detachment is one group, so count it as one unit of the given number of soldiers; the sum or count does not change by itself

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «detachment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detachment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.