squad
Other forms: squads
A squad is a group, gang, or team, often made up of soldiers or police officers, but any gang will do. Some people call their group of friends a squad, probably so they seem organized and tough.
An army squad might focus on demolition or sharpshooting, while a police squad specializes in one particular type of crime — like a vice squad, battling drugs and illegal gambling, or a riot squad, controlling large groups of protesters. Any team of people is a squad, like a cheerleading squad or a squad of teenage graffiti artists. Squad comes from the Vulgar Latin exquadra, "square," or the shape infantry troops historically assembled in to fight.
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the smallest army unittypes:firing party, firing squada squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military executiontype of:army unita military unit that is part of an army
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a small squad of police officers trained to deal with a particular kind of crimesynonyms: police squadtypes:vice squada police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitutionplatoona team of policemen working under the military platoon systemSWAT squad, SWAT team, Special Weapons and Tactics squad, Special Weapons and Tactics teama squad of policemen who have been trained to deal with violent and dangerous situationstype of:teama cooperative unit (especially in sports)
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a cooperative unit (especially in sports)synonyms: teamtypes:A-teama group of elite soldiers or a leadership group of advisors or workers in an organizationbatterya unit composed of the pitcher and catcherflying squada mobile group of trained people (police or executives or officials) able to move quickly in the case of emergenciesbaseball teama team that plays baseballhockey teama team that plays ice hockeysecond stringa squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the gamepolice squada small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crimepowerhousea team considered to be the best of its classdefence, defending team, defense(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoringhit squada team of assassinssectiona small team of policemen working as part of a police platoonlittle-league teama team that plays in a little leaguecrewthe team of rowers manning a racing shellfarm club, farm teama minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball)ball club, baseball club, club, ninea team of professional baseball players who play and travel togetherdeath squada clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval)Sparrow Unita hit squad of the New People's Army in the Philippinesvice squada police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitutionplatoona team of policemen working under the military platoon systemSWAT squad, SWAT team, Special Weapons and Tactics squad, Special Weapons and Tactics teama squad of policemen who have been trained to deal with violent and dangerous situationstype of:
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Vocabulary lists containing squad
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