brigade

Borrowed from French brigade.

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

brigade (plural brigades)

1. A group of people organized for a common purpose.

   a work brigade; a fire brigade

2. (military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
3. (derogatory) 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.

4. (Internet slang) Coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing, especially organized by an antagonistic website or community.
   • 2020, “Comments of Reddit, Inc., before the Federal Communications Commission, Washington DC”, in fcc.gov‎:

     We've definitely seen an increase in abusive content since certain areas began COVID lockdowns and stay home orders, we suspect because of the growth of people having time to waste doing these sorts of brigades.

• In many countries, a military brigade was traditionally formed from two or more regiments. According to the country and time period, brigade may also designate a much smaller group of soldiers. A modern US brigade usually consists of three battalions and forms part of a division.

• 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 228:

  The rifle brigade had arrived in Soldau with no commander, no staff, no artillery, just four separate regiments, each of them moving as it thought best and looking for something to do.

• brigadier
• brigadier general

brigade (third-person singular simple present brigades, present participle brigading, simple past and past participle brigaded)

1. To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.
   • 1969, William O. Douglas's opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio:

     This is, however, a classic case where speech is brigaded with action.

2. (Internet slang) To harass an individual or community online in a coordinated manner.

• Abridge, abridge, bigrade

Borrowed from French brigade.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbriˈɣaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: bri‧ga‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

brigade f (plural brigades)

1. brigade, a military unit consisting of two or more regiments, often using combined arms or of diverse disciplines
2. a police unit of varying size or purpose, but often serving a specialised purpose

• → Indonesian: brigade

Borrowed from Italian brigata.

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.ɡad/

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brigade f (plural brigades)

1. (military) brigade [from c. 1370]
2. (by extension) brigade, team of workers [from 1867]

• “brigade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Dutch brigade, from French brigade, from Italian brigata.

• IPA^(key): [briˈɡadə]
• Hyphenation: bri‧ga‧dê

brigadê (first-person possessive brigadeku, second-person possessive brigademu, third-person possessive brigadenya)

1. brigade: a military unit consisting of two or more regiments, often using combined arms or of diverse disciplines.

• brigéd (Standard Malay)

• “brigade” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
• brigade on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id

Borrowed from French brigade, from Italian brigata, from Italian or Medieval Latin briga (“strife”).

brigade m (definite singular brigaden, indefinite plural brigader, definite plural brigadene)

1. (military) a brigade

• “brigade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French brigade, from Italian brigata, from Italian or Medieval Latin briga (“strife”).

brigade m (definite singular brigaden, indefinite plural brigadar, definite plural brigadane)

1. (military) a brigade

• “brigade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.