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brigadier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brigadier general \Brig`a*dier" gen"er*al\ [F. brigadier, fr. brigade.] (Mil.) An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "officer in command of a brigade," from French brigadier, from brigade (see brigade).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military English) An army rank; an officer commanding a brigade. 2 (context military UK English) the highest field officer grade, below general officers, NATO grade O7
WordNet
n. a general officer ranking below a major general [syn: brigadier general]
Wikipedia
Brigadier is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country.
In some countries, it is a senior rank above colonel, equivalent to a brigadier general, typically commanding a brigade of several thousand men.
In other countries, it is a non-commissioned rank (e.g. Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands).
Brigadier (abbreviated as Brig) is a senior rank in the British Army and the Royal Marines. Brigadier is the superior rank to colonel, but subordinate to major-general. While the corresponding rank of brigadier general in many other nations is a general officer rank, the British Army considers it a field officer rank.
The rank has a NATO rank code of OF-6, placing it equivalent to the Royal Navy commodore and the Royal Air Force air commodore ranks and the brigadier general (1-star general) rank of the United States military and numerous other NATO nations.
Brigadier is an army rank. It may also refer to:
- Brigadier (French military rank), an enlisted rank equivalent to corporal in French cavalry units and the Police nationale
- Brigadier General, an army rank
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, a fictional Doctor Who character
- The Chevrolet Brigadier, a truck
- ST Brigadier, a tug in service with Steel & Bennie Ltd, 1946-60
- Brigadier (Music), a moniker used by musician Lucas Gladman from Columbus, OH
- The Brigadier (newspaper) - the campus newspaper of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
Brigadier (Brig) is a senior rank in the Sri Lanka Army.
Brigadier is a superior rank to Colonel, but inferior to Major-General. The rank has a NATO rank code of OF-6, equivalent to Commodore in the Sri Lanka Navy and Air Commodore in the Sri Lanka Air Force.
Initially Brigadier was not considered to be a General Officer rank by the Sri Lanka Army, however since the 1980s the rank has been considered a General Officer rank, some times designated with a single star. The rank insignia for a Brigadier is a Sri Lanka emblem over three "pips".
From 1949 to 1958, the Commander of the Ceylon Army held the rank of Brigadier.
Usage examples of "brigadier".
What the brigadier did not mention was that he had taken a big gamble that the ambushers who captured the Keutgenses had not already joined the main body when the plasma strike came down.
Guards, which does scouting, patrol, and reconnoissance duty in areas prescribed by the Brigadier.
That the Commandos should be reconstituted, as far as possible, by volunteers, by restoring to them any of their former members who may wish to return from the units in which they have been dispersed, and that Brigadier Laycock should have the command and should be appointed Director of Combined Operations.
Our liaison officer with him, Brigadier Swayne, was with me for some time and gave me the picture of the French armies so far as he knew it, which was only part of the way.
Brigadier held the machine-carbine in his hands, for the Zero swung round in a tight turn and headed off back against towards the west in the direction of Sumatra, its sleek fuselage black-streaked with pouring engine oil: less than two miles away it met the seaplane returning, and the two planes disappeared together into the pale golden afterwash of sunset.
The brigadier said that it was a piece of proper prison reform and that Barberton led the way and the Kommandant was to be congratulated.
The brigadier this very afternoon said nice things about Barberton prison and I just want to say to all my men that I am proud of you.
Unfortunately, it would have been even more ridiculous for what amounted to an infantry brigadier who commanded a total of barely nine thousand militia men and women, to assert command over thirty-four thousand tons worth of Bolos and the woman who commanded them.
All the same, the fuss they were making of this young monk, while according only the curtest of nods to the Brigadier, so disgusted him that he was in a hurry to get away.
Brigadier Murray made the necessary dispositions to defend the place to the last extremity: he raised two cavaliers, contrived some out-works, and planted the ramparts with one hundred and thirty-two pieces of artillery, dragged thither mostly by the soldiery.
He made Brigadier General Barzan abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid al-Tikriti the commander of the Special Republican Guard forces responsible for the defense of Baghdad.
May 1857, that a telegram arrived at the fort informing the Resident and Brigadier General Sir James Cameron that Indian army sepoys had revolted in Meerut, killed their officers and British civilians in the town and were marching on Delhi to rally behind the Moghul Emperor, Bahadur Shah II, against the British.
It was the warrant Brigadier Sturgeon had given him after the attack on Multan, appointing him an honorary lance corporal, in the Confederation Marine Corps.
This detachment was under the command of General Howe and Brigadier Pigott, who had orders, at all risks, to drive the provincials from their works, and to occupy the hill.
But even with that advantage sleep had been nearly impossible with the repeated nightlong rattle of small-arms fire from nervous sentries, and in the early dawn they had returned on foot to their planes armed with the proper password and personally escorted by the brigadier general commanding the field.