Words / B2

TROOP/truːp/

A troop is a group of soldiers (often troops in the plural) or a group of scouts/monkeys: deploy troops; a troop of baboons. Troupe is a group of performers (note the u). Army is the whole force. The source counts troops deployed, not a video-game score. Mix-up: troupe / trip / troop vs troup. Do not write troop for one soldier (that is a soldier / a private).

Meaning

A group of soldiers (usually troops in the plural); also a group of scouts or animals.

Examples

• “The source counts troops deployed, not a video-game score.”
• “A troop of scouts featured in the local-history extract, which is the organised-group sense.”

Good to know

troops; deploy / withdraw troops; a troop of. Performers: troupe. Trap: trip. News, history, and biology. Soldiers (usually plural) or a named group, not one person.

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