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Soldiers parked in a place specifically so nothing exciting ever happens there.

means A body of troops stationed in a fort or town to hold and guard it, or the fortified place they occupy.

from From Old French garison/garnison, meaning 'protection, defense' or 'provisioning,' tied to the verb garnir, 'to furnish, equip, or defend.' That same garnir is the ancestor of English 'garnish' — so a garrison and a garnish are, etymologically, both things added to 'equip' or 'complete' something, one a fort with soldiers, the other a plate with parsley.

origin
from old french garir, to defend
peacetime job
mostly guarding buildings and boredom
town effect
local economy often built around it
verb form
means to station troops permanently somewhere
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