The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word UNIT
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More clues leading to the result UNIT
- Group of soldiers in Verdun, I think
- Upper-class fool in group of soldiers?
- Military group you join together, we hear
- One that’s invested in munitions
- Ruin diet regularly getting measure of alcohol
- Military detachment to come together shortly
- University can back assembly
- Fund kits centrally for some soldiers
- One time at college
- Group of soldiers disheartened in the dark
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The straight part
We know that "measure of alcohol" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case measure of alcohol = unit.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does UNIT mean?
UNIT noun- A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other.
- Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
- A standard measure of a quantity.
- The number one.
- An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
- A member of a military organization.
- Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
- An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
- A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
- With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
- The identity element, neutral element.
- An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
- In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
- A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
- An item which may be sold singly.
- A unit of alcohol.
- One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
- A measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
- A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
- A work unit.
- A physically large person.
- For each unit.
- Having a size or magnitude of one.