organize into groups; railway carriage marshalling
Meanings
2 senses · 7 examplesverb
to organize into groups or units
formalA formal term used in organizational, logistical, and transportation contexts to describe systematic grouping.
The teacher organized the students into several study groups.
For efficient transport, we need to organize the trucks into convoys.
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Before the event, volunteers were organized into groups responsible for different tasks.
The military organized its personnel into units before the exercise.
noun
a group; a unit; a marshalled train
technicalAs a noun, it often refers to the resulting group itself, or specifically to a train set formed by coupling carriages in a specific order for operation.
This unit will be responsible for the market research part of the project.
The marshalling of freight train carriages is completed in the shunting yard.
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An electric multiple unit (EMU) is a fixed train set formation.