from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A military unit consisting of a variable number of combat battalions or regiments.
- n. A U.S. Army administrative and tactical unit composed of a headquarters unit, at least one unit of infantry or armor or both, and designated support units. A brigade can be commanded by a brigadier general or by a colonel.
- n. A group of persons organized for a specific purpose: formed a bucket brigade to carry water to the fire.
- transitive v. To form into a brigade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A group of people organized to perform a common purpose. e.g. a work brigade, a fire brigade
- n. Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
- v. To form troops into a brigade
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
- n. Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority.
- transitive v. To form into a brigade, or into brigades.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To form into a brigade or into brigades: as, regiments of militia are brigaded with regiments of the line.
- Hence To arrange or embody in a single collection or group; group together, as in zoölogy, under a single name.
- n. A party or division of troops or soldiers, whether cavalry or infantry, regulars or militia, consisting of several regiments, squadrons, or battalions, under the command of a brigadier, or brigadier-general.
- n. A body of individuals organized, generally wearing a uniform, and acting under authority: as, a fire brigade.
- n. In zoology, a division of no fixed value, used in the sense of ‘cohort,’ as a convenient term for assemblages of animals which may not be included in any of the divisions commonly employed.
- n. A small squad of engineers or of other technical troops: as, the full sap was executed by a brigade of eight sappers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. form or unite into a brigade
- n. army unit smaller than a division
La Poste still used the term brigade to describe teams of tellers and was organized into seven hierarchical levels.
The stand up for what you believe in brigade is always behind you.
That which you call a brigade and which we call a training center has been in Cuba for the past 17 years.
He was _general de brigade_, which is not what we know as a brigade general, but is one who commands a division, a major-general.
I wonder when the teabagger brigade is going to whine about Coburn wasting time and money writing legislation for rules that already exist.
Bozo The Neoclown says: colonel sanders of the KFC biscuit brigade is busy right now. please leave a message and he will get back to you once the line at the drive-thru clears
Yawn, the teabagger brigade is spewing the “latest” rhetorical talking point misinformation.
While warring in Serenity Valley, his brigade is tucked in deep and within the sights of the advancing enemy.
That is, unless the right wing piss pants brigade is somehow again allowed to respond to jihadist attack by themselves attacking the central foundations of our liberal democracy by ripping up the Constitution and scoffing at the notion of Constitutionally protected rights.
"Those skills are transferable," said Army Col. Chris Gibson, commander of the brigade from the 82nd Airborne Division that is getting established here.