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Kilimanjaro Posted 19 years ago
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Iraq violence kills seven U.S. troops

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00As far as I know and see in the well-known dictionaries "troop" means an assemblage of soldiers and merely a unit which consists of more than "one soldier" . But I quite often see and hear "troops" for individual privates on reputed media such as CNN, BBC etc..Why is that?0240cwww.yahoo.com
  

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0 In these cases, it's used as another word for "soldier." 0-

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