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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brigade \Bri*gade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brigaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Brigading.] (Mil.) To form into a brigade, or into brigades.
Brigade \Bri*gade"\, n. [F. brigade, fr. It. brigata troop, crew, brigade, originally, a contending troop, fr. briga trouble, quarrel. See Brigand.]
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(Mil.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
Note: Two or more brigades constitute a division, commanded by a major general; two or more divisions constitute an army corps, or corps d'arm['e]e. [U.S.]
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Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.
Brigade inspector, an officer whose duty is to inspect troops in companies before they are mustered into service.
Brigade major, an officer who may be attached to a brigade to assist the brigadier in his duties.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"subdivision of an army," 1630s, from French brigade "body of soldiers" (14c.), from Italian brigata "troop, crowd, gang," from brigare "brawl, fight," from briga "strife, quarrel," perhaps of Celtic (compare Gaelic brigh, Welsh bri "power") or Germanic origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A group of people organized for a common purpose. 2 (context military English) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service. 3 (context derogatory English) A group of people who share views or beliefs. vb. To form troops into a brigade
WordNet
n. army unit smaller than a division
v. form or unite into a brigade
Wikipedia
Brigade is an American comic book published by Image Comics and later by Awesome Entertainment, created, plotted, and originally written by Rob Liefeld and first illustrated by Marat Mychaels (creator of Demonslayer and artist on X-Force: Shatterstar, Glory, Calavera, Vampiress Hella, Djustine and many other comics) as a spin-off to the then-popular series Youngblood.
Brigade are a British alternative rock band from London, England, formed in 2003. The four-piece consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Will Simpson, lead guitarist and backing vocalist James Plant, bassist Naoto Hori, and drummer Andrew Kearton.
To date Brigade have released two extended plays and three studio albums. The band have toured with such UK bands as Fightstar, InMe and Hell Is For Heroes, and US bands including Aiden and Kill Hannah.
The brigade was a labor division within the Soviet collective farm ( kolkhoz).
Brigade is a San Francisco-based technology startup company that offers a civic engagement and activism platform to share and debate political beliefs through its mobile application. In 2014, the company received $9.3 million funding round from Sean Parker, Marc Benioff and Ron Conway. Brigade was founded by James Windon and Matt Mahan in 2014.
The app offers users a civic engagement platform, where users are prompted to answer questions about specific issues with agree or disagree button.
A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of three to six battalions plus supporting elements. It is roughly equivalent to an enlarged or reinforced regiment. Two or more brigades may constitute a division.
Brigades formed into divisions are usually infantry or armored (sometimes referred to as combined arms brigades). In addition to combat units, they may include combat support units or sub-units, such as artillery and engineers, and logistic units or sub-units. Historically, such brigades have sometimes been called brigade-groups. On operations, a brigade may comprise both organic elements and attached elements, including some temporarily attached for a specific task.
Brigades may also be specialized and comprise battalions of a single branch, for example cavalry, mechanized, armored, artillery, air defence, aviation, engineers, signals or logistic. Some brigades are classified as independent or separate and operate independently from the traditional division structure. The typical NATO standard brigade consists of approximately 3,200 to 5,500 troops. However, in Switzerland and Austria, the numbers could go as high as 11,000 troops. The Soviet Union, its forerunners and successors, mostly use "regiment" instead of brigade, and this was common in much of Europe until after World War II.
A brigade's commander is commonly a major general, brigadier general, brigadier or colonel. In some armies, the commander is rated as a General Officer. The brigade commander has a self-contained headquarters and staff. The principal staff officer, usually a lieutenant colonel or colonel, may be designated chief of staff, although until the late 20th century British and similar armies called the position 'brigade-major'. Some brigades may also have a deputy commander. The headquarters has a nucleus of staff officers and support (clerks, assistants and drivers) that can vary in size depending on the type of brigade. On operations, additional specialist elements may be attached. The headquarters will usually have its own communications unit.
In some gendarmerie forces, brigades are the basic-level organizational unit.
Brigade is the tenth studio album by the American rock band Heart. Released in 1990 after a three-year gap between albums, the album features the No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 hit " All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" and reached No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Two other album cuts reached the Top 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (" I Didn't Want to Need You", " Stranded"), and two others peaked near the top of Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart ("Wild Child", "Tall Dark Handsome Stranger").
The album was followed by a successful world tour. Like its 1987 predecessor Bad Animals, the album is notable for a decline in writing contributions from lead members Ann and Nancy Wilson, but would be the last of Heart's albums to prominently feature outside writers.
A brigade is a military unit.
Brigade may also refer to:
- Brigade (album), a 1990 album by Heart
- Brigade (band), an English rock band
- Brigade (comics), a comic book series by Image Comics
- Brigade (Marvel Comics), a video game character in Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
- Brigade (pejorative), a mild term of collective contempt
- Brigade de cuisine, the hierarchy of the apprentice system in a professional kitchen
- The Brigade, part of St. John Ambulance Canada
- The Brigade, modified name of the California band Youth Brigade (band), used from 1986 to 1987
- Youth Brigade (disambiguation)
- Abdullah Azzam Brigades, Arab Sunni Islamist militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the global jihad movement
- Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade, Church of England youth organisation with branches in the United Kingdom and many countries
- International Brigades, military units of foreigners in the Spanish Civil War
- Jewish Brigade, a Jewish Infantry Brigade Group of the British Army that served in Europe during the Second World War
- Kansas City Brigade, an Arena Football League team
- Red Brigades, Marxist–Leninist vanguard paramilitary organization, based in Italy
- Tank Brigade (film)
- Web brigades, teams using sockpuppets to promote pro-Putin and pro-Russian propaganda
The word brigade, originally used to describe a military unit, can also be used as a pejorative collective noun to describe an informal group of like-minded individuals with views with which the speaker disagrees. It is used as a mild term of disapproval or contempt, or in an attempt to belittle and ridicule the subject.
For example, "PC brigade" is used to describe a supposed group of people who go around enforcing politically correct rules.
"Green welly brigade" refers in a deprecating way to well-heeled people who find their recreation in the countryside.
The 'Hang 'em and flog 'em brigade' is often used in British Politics to describe the far right who may support capital punishment, corporal punishment and a repeal of certain 'human rights'. The opposing side is often thus referred to as the 'Human rights brigade'.
The ' Nothing to hide, nothing to fear brigade' is used in regards to people who support increased state surveillance - particularly in the UK - with the justification that only people who are willingly committing crimes would need to worry about being under scrutiny. The opposing side is often called the ' Orwell brigade', the ' 1984 brigade', or the ' conspiracy brigade'.
The ' Think of the Children brigade' refers to proponents of the Nanny state, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It is a reference to a phrase spoken by The Simpsons character Helen Lovejoy.
Similarly, blue rinse brigade, morality brigade, Prawn sandwich brigade, NIMBY brigade.
The term may have had its origins in The Angry Brigade, a British anarchist group of the early 1970s.
Usage examples of "brigade".
Once a division received its supplies, the food had to be divided among the brigades, then further separated and sent to the regiments and artillery batteries and cavalry units.
Lukien turned to see Trager, Breck, and four others of their brigade toting the iron box.
In brigading the regiments no attention whatever was paid to the race or color of the men.
General Gatacre was nominally in command of a division, but so cruelly had his men been diverted from him, some to Buller in Natal and some to Methuen, that he could not assemble more than a brigade.
French with two cavalry brigades formed the left advance, Pole-Carew the centre, and Buller the right, the whole operations extending over thirty miles of infamous country.
We could have eaten in the brigade mess hootch, but we would have had about the same food.
After dropping him off at the brigade TOC, I drove to the hootch to gather my belongings, my mind churning with things I needed to tell Ed before he took over.
The field clear, Marion left his brigade in charge of Horry, and repaired to Jacksonborough, to attend the Assembly, to which he had been elected a member from St.
And every manjack of us in the Irish Brigade is willing to shed his blood to bring about that glorious day.
The 127th brigade were to go through when these positions had been made good and occupy the high ground overlooking Marou, a small hamlet on the final objective, which was to be taken by the 6th Manchesters.
Brigade implant in her left mastoid bone, and her belly twisted in an abrupt resurgence of guilt.
Ahead of him was a brigade of skirmishers, a misted valley, an unsuspecting enemy and, for the moment, silence.
A force of four to six divisions along with a couple of ACRs and extra aviation brigades should have little difficulty overrunning the Iraqi armed forces and conquering the country, but it never hurts to be certain, and in this situation we need to be certain.
The essential features of the plan were that at a preconcerted signal we at the, second and third floors should appear at the windows with bricks and irons from the tobacco presses, which a should shower down on the guards and drive them away, while the men of the first floor would pour out, chase the guards into the board house in the basement, seize their arms, drive those away from around Libby and the other prisons, release the officers, organize into regiments and brigades, seize the armory, set fire to the public buildings and retreat from the City, by the south side of the James, where there was but a scanty force of Rebels, and more could be prevented from coming over by burning the bridges behind us.
But if a couple of brigades of good troops could take some town or other suitable point on the communications, they might, with sea-power behind them, cause a prolonged interruption, require heavy forces to be moved against them, and then withdraw to strike again at some other point.