# der Tross

der Tross is a German noun meaning “baggage train”. Forms: des Trosses, die Trosse.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Trosses
- Plural: die Trosse

## Meanings

1. baggage train (a unit’s supply vehicles and the troops resonsible for them)
   - Zuerst kam bei ihm die Kampfstaffel, dann die I-Truppe, dann die Versorgungsstaffel und dann der Troß. — The combat squad came first for him, then the maintenance squad, then the logistics squad, and finally the baggage train.
2. _figurative_ group or column of people moving somewhere
3. entourage, escort, group of accompanying associates
4. _historical_ baggage
   - Der Tross war manchmal fast so groß wie die Truppe selbst.

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