brigade
/bɹɪˈɡeɪd/ sustantivo C1En español: brigada
- A group of people organized for a common purpose. · a work brigade; a fire brigade
- A military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
- A group of people who share views or a specific characteristic. · More sympathy for career criminals from the bleeding-heart brigade!· I wouldn't even want to be seen dead with those nerds of the bowl-cut brigade.
- Coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing, especially organized by an antagonistic website or community.
Plural brigades
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When the vicarage caught fire he distinguished himself also by the fearlessness with which he reentered the building to save property, after the local fire brigade had given it up as impossible.
I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand.
“‘The undersigned Louis-Jacques Beaurepaire, lieutenant-colonel of artillery, Étienne Duchampy, general of brigade, and Claude Lecharpal, keeper of woods and forests, declare, that on the 4th of February, a letter arrived from the Island of Elba, recommending to the kindness and the confidence of the Bonapartist Club, General Flavien de Quesnel, who having served the emperor from 1804 to 1814 was supposed to be devoted to the interests of the Napoleon dynasty, notwithstanding the title of baron which Louis XVIII.
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