Echelon is valid Scrabble Word

Is echelon a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for ECHELON in dictionary:

VERB:

to arrange in a steplike formation
arrange in an echelon formation
To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
To take position in echelon.
assemble in echelon

NOUN:

a level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society
a formation of troops, ships, aircraft, or vehicles in parallel rows with the end of each row projecting further than the one in front
a part of a military force differentiated by position in battle or by function
level of power or responsibility
An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.

An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
a body of troops arranged in a line
a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to group in a particular formation

Words related to ECHELON

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Words that contain ECHELON

echelons13 echeloned15 echeloning16

How to use ECHELON in a sentence

The trenches lay in a sort of echelon formation, the one on the extreme right being the most advanced.
The echelon order possesses in general very great advantages.
At the battle of the Pyramids, Napoleon formed the oblique order in echelon by squares.
By placing the squadrons of horse and the light batteries in echelon, the retiring column may be well protected.
Napoleon watched the huge black echelon of battalions mount the slope, their right section crumbled under the rush of the British Guards.
This feature, a pursuit in echelon with the left flank advanced, continued throughout these operations.
I said, yes, if he, Braithwaite, would stand surety that he, Woodward, had fixed up his base hospitals and third echelon, but if not, no! Next came Woodward himself.
Ride back rapidly along the line and tell the commanders to advance instantly EN ECHELON from the left.
An echelon of geese passed high overhead in the region of the pale moon.
Then, on the return, the young cavalrymen swept, at a gallop, by platoons, in echelon and by column of squads.

It soon became an echelon owing to the slow movements of Buller in Natal.
These on June 8 were carried by an infantry movement in echelon with loss of two men killed.

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