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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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About Dispositions
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/disposition
2.2 (dispositions) The stationing of troops ready for military action.
‘the new strategic dispositions of our forces’According to Oxford English Dictionary, disposition which means the stationing of troops ready for military action is used as a plural form. Yet, Random House Webster's ESL Dictionary says:
arrangement or placing, such as of troops: the careful disposition of the remaining troops.Could it be the difference between British English and American English?Further, Is there any difference in meaning between the careful disposition of the remaining troops and the careful dispositions of the remaining troops?
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Oxford is a British publication and the usage in it is British. "Dispositions" is British usage. "
- Oxford is a British publication and the usage in it is British.
- "Dispositions" is British usage.
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Oxford is a British publication and the usage in it is British. "Dispositions" is British usage. The American version, in Random House, is "disposition."
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