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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 can·ton·ment /kænˈtonmənt, ˈtɑn ||ˈtun-/
 宿營地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Can·ton·ment n.  A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.
 Note:When troops are sheltered in huts or quartered in the houses of the people during any suspension of hostilities, they are said to be in cantonment, or to be cantoned. In India, permanent military stations, or military towns, are termed cantonments.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 cantonment
      n : temporary living quarters specially built by the army for
          soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were
          grumbling" [syn: camp, encampment, bivouac]