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mounted

[ moun-tid ]

adjective

  1. seated or riding on a horse or other animal.

    Antonyms:

  2. serving on horseback or on some special mount, as soldiers or police.
  3. Military. (formerly) permanently equipped with horses or vehicles for transport. Compare mobile ( def 4 ).
  4. having or set in a mounting: mount: mounting:

    mounted gems.

  5. put into position for use, as guns.


mounted

/ ˈʊԳɪ /

adjective

  1. equipped with or riding horses

    mounted police

  2. provided with a support, backing, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ܲ·dzܲԳĻ adjective
  • ɱ-dzܲԳĻ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mounted1

First recorded in 1575–85; mount 1 + -ed 2
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Last year an inquest found the atrocity, in Kingsmills, was an overtly sectarian attack mounted by the IRA.

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That explains another frontal attack on Medicaid mounted by the GOP: the imposition of work requirements on Medicaid enrollees.

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Those plans include scrapping the Royal Parks police and Safer Schools officers, along with cuts to forensics and mounted police, and potentially taking firearms off the Flying Squad.

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Trains were cancelled and evacuated in some regions, and traffic lights stopped working as delays mounted at airports.

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Still, the signs of the huge security operation mounted by the Vatican and Italian authorities were everywhere.

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