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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
squad
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bomb disposal experts/team/squad/unit
▪ The device, which contained 400lbs of explosive, was made safe by army bomb disposal experts.
death squad
firing squad
flying squad
▪ the head of Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad
God squad
hit squad
pep squad
snatch squad
squad car
the riot squad (=a group of police who deal with riots)
▪ Then someone called the riot squad.
▪ Demonstrators clashed with 140 riot squad officers, drawn from the police and the British army.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
firing
▪ She is led out of the cell, and the firing squad is lining up.
▪ Facing him at the office next day was like facing a firing squad.
▪ Enough about the victims - what about the members of a firing squad?
▪ People like me, who believed the firing squad had been assembled, were left with egg on our faces.
▪ The death sentence on Eduardo Díaz Betancourt was upheld on appeal, and he was executed by firing squad on Jan. 20.
▪ In 1923 three prisoners were executed by firing squad.
▪ Due to the youthful inaccuracy of the firing squad, few if any were killed at the first volley.
▪ Hustled through the storm and into the reception area he felt like some one on their way to a firing squad.
full
▪ Whitfield enjoys a comparative luxury tonight with a full squad available.
▪ The full squad is expected by Feb. 20.
▪ The cherry and whites have a full squad to choose from.
▪ Ward will have a full squad to choose from apart from former Hartlepool defender Tony Barratt, who has a calf strain.
▪ Seaham will have a full squad for their home game with Blue Star.
hit
▪ The hit squad blew her vehicle off the road, and she was lucky to have jumped clear before the main explosion.
▪ These are the animal fundamentalists organized into hit squads.
▪ They say a Middle East hit squad was involved.
national
▪ Particular attention should be paid to the section linking regional and national squad development where this is desired and appropriate.
▪ They are among the national squad scullers competing who are seeking a place in the Olympic team.
▪ With this in mind the Hong Kong U24 squad will also become part of the national squad.
special
▪ The Hong Kong police special triad squad responded with pressure of its own, according to McNicol.
strong
▪ New signings David James and Paul Stewart have further strengthened a strong squad that has been rejuvenated in the last year.
▪ That thought is too depressing for words ... player for player we are probably the strongest squad in the premier league.
vice
▪ It wasn't exactly an exciting party, but the vice squad knocked on the door.
▪ Jim Duncan of the vice squad.
■ NOUN
bomb
▪ The police had sealed off only part of the city centre while the bomb squad investigated.
▪ All of the bombs were removed and disabled by the New York Police Department bomb squad before they exploded.
▪ The way Max's biological clock is ticking, it's a wonder Emma didn't call out the bomb squad.
▪ The bomb squad also was summoned to examine one other package that proved to be harmless.
▪ KINETON/Warwickshire Time allowed 02:24 It's a training exercise ... but for the bomb squad this scenario is disturbingly real.
▪ In each instance, the explosives were removed by a New York police bomb squad to a basement.
▪ The device, discovered inside a Ford Transit van, was made safe after controlled explosions carried out by bomb squad officers.
▪ The bomb squad took the device to the basement and disarmed it by inundating it with a water cannon.
car
▪ She saw prisoners being hauled out of squad cars up to the doors.
▪ Glover opened his eyes and saw a white and blue squad car easing around the north bend on Mirror Lake Road.
▪ One of the squad cars was standing empty.
▪ They gon na be parked in a squad car on Fox Street, right off Prospect.
▪ Two young officers waited while he shaved and dressed before leading him to an unmarked squad car.
▪ They told me to get in the squad car and we drove right up to it.
▪ With sirens blaring and amber lights flashing, the squad cars slewed to a halt at the rear of a war-torn Cadillac.
▪ Yet when crime rates rise, the police buy more squad cars.
crime
▪ Presumably it would be the Yard who investigated this one, rather than the regional crime squad.
cup
▪ Ask Tony Pickard what he could do with an additional £250,000 for the development and training of the Davis Cup squad.
death
▪ The death squad published a statement claiming they would cut off the head of every Committee member.
▪ This old man had already lost two sons-both journalists-to death squads.
▪ But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads.
▪ Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads.
▪ Those trained allegedly formed a death squad which directed its activity against pro-ANC activists.
▪ Reformists allege that the killings were part of a campaign by state-sponsored death squads to silence dissent.
▪ Whole villages have been massacred by extremists and faceless death squads.
▪ This was the group, formally under army control, that operated as a death squad during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos.
detective
▪ His father, David Ashworth, is wanted for questioning by murder squad detectives but yesterday he was still missing.
▪ David Ashworth was being brought back to Merseyside for interview after inquiries led murder squad detectives to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
▪ Bomb squad detectives were called when initial reports suggested animal rights campaigners were responsible.
▪ Murder squad detectives can hold and question the boys until 7am tomorrow.
▪ Outside London a murder squad detective might have one or two.
▪ Murder squad detectives, led by Detective Superintendent Stan Fletcher, sealed off the area while forensic tests were carried out.
▪ Murder squad detectives have warned that Mr Ashworth should not be approached.
▪ Murder squad detectives were questioning four men yesterday.
drug
▪ It was last August that drug squad officers raided a barn at Chalford near Stroud.
▪ Melvin Blizzard, a drug squad supervisor.
▪ August 20: Cannabis plants worth £2,500 seized by drugs squad officers at a house in the Waterside area of Londonderry.
▪ On January 1, 1982, Coetzee was transferred too the drugs squad.
▪ Attempts to control drug use, through the formation of drug squads, helped to amplify it.
▪ Detective Sergeant Kenneth Simpson of the Strathclyde police's drugs squad knows the type of man he is looking for.
fraud
▪ She wasn't on the plane and West Mercia fraud squad have asked Interpol to investigate.
▪ I picks up the phone and dialled a special number for the fraud squad.
▪ If I can't get the information I want any other way I shall ask the fraud squad to make inquiries.
▪ It is the first time the fraud squad has been directly accused of leaking the report.
▪ Twenty years later saw the creation of provincial fraud squads.
▪ In the metropolitan police there is only one fraud squad officer for every hundred officers.
▪ When the receivers were called in, fraud squad officers seized eight tons of documents.
▪ Although the authors were charged by the fraud squad, they were not prosecuted.
member
▪ Five other squad members were with the Merseyside B squad last season.
▪ The value covers the 22 first team squad members and 15 young professionals.
▪ Country by country, this superb book covers all last season's League and Cup results and squad members.
officer
▪ Drugs squad officers in Wiltshire discovered another drug factory in the bedroom of a council house yesterday.
▪ In recent weeks, drugs squad officers have seized quantities of crack cocaine in Gloucester and Stroud.
▪ It was last August that drug squad officers raided a barn at Chalford near Stroud.
▪ August 20: Cannabis plants worth £2,500 seized by drugs squad officers at a house in the Waterside area of Londonderry.
▪ In the metropolitan police there is only one fraud squad officer for every hundred officers.
▪ When the receivers were called in, fraud squad officers seized eight tons of documents.
▪ Drugs squad officers want doctors and hospitals to pass on information about any traces of crack found in patients during emergency treatments.
▪ The device, discovered inside a Ford Transit van, was made safe after controlled explosions carried out by bomb squad officers.
practice
▪ Reese was signed by the 49ers in 1996 and spent the season on the practice squad.
▪ Reese was released on Aug. 24 of this year and again signed to the practice squad.
▪ Montez and Wylie may return to join the practice squad.
▪ He was kicked when he tackled fullback LaMonte Coleman, a member of the practice squad.
▪ They thus activated fullback Jerone Davison and safety Lamar Lyons from the practice squad.
▪ Assuming Manuel clears waivers, the 49ers said they would sign him to their practice squad.
riot
▪ And loyalists claim a second inmate was blinded for 48 hours after riot squad prison officers turned high-powered hose on his face.
▪ Special riot squads were ordered in from outside the city to deal with the gangs.
■ VERB
call
▪ The way Max's biological clock is ticking, it's a wonder Emma didn't call out the bomb squad.
▪ When triggered, the alarm seems to call in squads of immune cells that surround tuberculosis bacteria and keep them from spreading.
▪ When the receivers were called in, fraud squad officers seized eight tons of documents.
face
▪ Royle has named five Goodison old boys in the 16-man squad to face the club where he started his career.
fire
▪ Not all wartime firing squads acted in accordance with the Geneva Convention, however.
▪ He has stated that he chose the firing squad to make it hard for Utah to carry it out.
▪ This has sent hundreds of murderers and drug dealers to firing squads after being paraded at public rallies.
▪ Billy had heard that one man in each firing squad was customarily given a rifle loaded with blank cartridge.
▪ So just before the firing squad is ordered to shoot, the unconscious man is pinched awake.
▪ Meanwhile, Switzer faces a firing squad each day.
▪ But last week one murderer was shot by a firing squad.
▪ No firing squads as in Idaho and Utah.
include
▪ Presumably, a player wouldn't be included in a squad if he's not 100 percent fit.
▪ Goalkeepers Steve Sherwood and Paul Reece have had injury problems this week both are included in the squad.
join
▪ Henry Honiball had joined up with the squad by Wednesday morning.
▪ Montez and Wylie may return to join the practice squad.
▪ He was confident that Barnes would have trained without discomfort before being dispatched to join the squad at their Buckinghamshire headquarters.
▪ Garryowen's Richard Wallace will fly out tomorrow to join the squad.
▪ She joined the Boat Race squad last January and quickly took over the Blue boat.
lead
▪ It is unclear who is leading the militia squads.
▪ It was very effective and led to some good squad leaders.
▪ Havelock, 23, will lead the youngest-ever squad into international action at Oxford next week.
name
▪ Brian Horton has named a squad of 15.
▪ Manager, John Sillett, has named a squad of 14.
▪ Glendenen will be named in the squad for the match against Derbyshire at Chesterfield, starting tomorrow.
▪ Donovan looks set to be named in the Albion squad for today's trip to Burnley.
▪ Tait is named in a squad that also includes veteran Kevan Smith and teenager Adam Reed.
▪ But by naming a larger squad than normal, Eriksson will be able to sidestep the issue.
▪ United have named a squad of 14.
pick
▪ It was a move that clearly suited him for the following season he was picked for the county squad.
play
▪ Some of this season's squad played under Doyle in the mid-'80s and they especially resent his criticisms.
send
▪ Now it involves sending squads of well-armed and well-trained fighters deeper into the territory.
set
▪ Teamsters International President Ron Carey set up a squad of experts to help local presidents restructure and lift membership.
strengthen
▪ Lawrence could strengthen his squad for a final promotion push.
▪ New signings David James and Paul Stewart have further strengthened a strong squad that has been rejuvenated in the last year.
▪ Chapman strengthened his squad by buying Charlie Jones from Nottingham Forest.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the God squad
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a football squad
▪ Only two starting players are returning from last year's women's basketball squad.
▪ Vivian McGrath was the star of the 1938 Davis Cup squad.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An encouraging aspect was that each of the three new caps in the squad contributed to the victory.
▪ But in this squad system the axe does not fall easily.
▪ Commandos would land from the destroyer and from coastal forces motorboats in small assault parties, demolition squads, and protection parties.
▪ For unknown reasons, a squad of police marched into the black suburb of Brownsville.
▪ If he comes through unscathed, he can be added to the squad.
▪ Outside London a murder squad detective might have one or two.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squad

Squad \Squad\ (skw[o^]d), n. [F. escouade, fr. Sp. escuadra, or It. squadra, (assumed) LL. exquadrare to square; L. ex + quadra a square. See Square.]

  1. (Mil.) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.

  2. Hence, any small party.

Squad

Squad \Squad\, n. Sloppy mud. [Prov. Eng.]
--Tennyson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
squad

1640s, "small number of military men detailed for some purpose," from French esquade, from Middle French escadre, from Spanish escuadra or Italian squadra "battalion," literally "square," from Vulgar Latin *exquadra (see square (n.)). Before the widespread use of of automatic weapons, infantry troops tended to fight in a square formation to repel cavalry or superior forces. Extended to sports 1902, police work 1905.

Wiktionary
squad

n. 1 A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members. 2 A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members. 3 (context cricket soccer rugby English) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitute are chosen. 4 (context UK dialect English) sloppy mud

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WordNet
squad

  1. n. a smallest army unit

  2. a cooperative unit [syn: team]

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Wikipedia
Squad

In military terminology, a squad is a sub-subunit led by a non-commissioned officer that is subordinate to an infantry platoon. In countries following the British Army tradition ( Australian Army, Canadian Army, and others), this organization is referred to as a section. In most armies, a squad consists of eight to fourteen soldiers, and may be further subdivided into fireteams.

The equivalent to squad is the Gruppe, a sub-unit of 8 to 12 soldiers, in the German Bundeswehr, Austrian Bundesheer and Swiss Army.

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Standard NATO symbol – squad (7 or 8 – 12 soldiers) – in NATO armed forces:

  • two single dots (●● squad in general); respectively
  • a lying rectangle with two dots above (squad as single sub-unit) on military maps
Squad (disambiguation)

A squad is a small military unit.

Squad may also refer to:

  • The Squad (Irish Republican Army unit), an Irish Republican Army unit founded in 1919
  • The Squad (comics), a superhero team from the Malibu Comics' Ultraverse
  • The Squad (novel), a 1990 Vietnam War novel by David Sherman
  • The Squad (TV series), an English children's TV series, aired in 1980 by ITV
  • The Squad (2011 film), a 2011 Colombian horror film
  • The Squad (2015 film), a 2015 French action film
  • Squad (company), a Mexican interactive media and independent video game company, developers of Kerbal Space Program
  • Squad (video game), an upcoming video game by Offworld Industries
Squad (company)

Monkey Squad, S.A. de C.V., doing business as Squad, is an interactive entertainment company based in Mexico City, Mexico, best known for their debut game Kerbal Space Program.

The main business of Squad is to provide digital and interactive services to customers like Coca-Cola, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Samsung and Nissan, including creating websites, guerrilla marketing, multi-media installations, and corporate-image design. They have developed software for different applications, some of which were video games.

In October 2010, Felipe Falanghe (a.k.a. "HarvesteR") approached Squad owners Adrian Goya and Ezequiel Ayarza. He intended to resign to work on a video game he had been planning. However, Squad said he could create the game as a company project after finishing his current assignment. That was the start of Kerbal Space Program, an indie space flight simulation game with first public release on June 24, 2011, with the game in version 0.7.3. The game was officially released out of beta on April 27, 2015, and is continually updated. Felipe Falanghe announced that he would no longer be the lead developer of Kerbal Space Program on May 30, 2016; this was so he could pursue a currently unspecified project.

Part of Squad's enticement to join is that each employee will, at some stage, be able to make their dream pitch to the company. If the pitch makes business sense, then the company will support it. With the success of KSP, Squad is starting to branch out into other areas, such as record-producing, and away from pure marketing.

Squad (video game)

Squad is a tactical first-person shooter video game being developed by Offworld Industries. It is set to be self-published through Steam and is a spiritual successor to the multi-award winning Project Reality modification for Battlefield 2. Squad is available on Steam Early Access starting December 15, 2015.

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Usage examples of "squad".

I heard the sound of the scene of the crime squad arriving, and Aden and I both turned our heads instinctively toward the noise.

Slowly the squad of fifty Hadati hillmen reached the summit, and at last Erik and Akee were alone on the beach.

Where, a second earlier, there had been a squad of InfiniDim Enterprises executives with a rocket launcher standing on an elegant terraced plaza paved with large slabs of lustrous stone cut from the ancient alabastrum quarries of Zentalquabula there was now, instead, a bit of a pit with nasty bits in it.

Other Real Compania Irlandesa officers were supervising the squads collecting the Portuguese dead, while ather Sarsfield had taken charge of a dozen men and their wives who were caring for the Portuguese wounded, though without a surgeon there was little they could do except bandage, pray and fetch water.

The squad moved like an inexorable wedge into the blockaded spaceport, wielding clubs and spears.

Generally he lets Stewart continue to run the squad and helps Boggy with training.

Their outlook was reinforced by the whipping post, the gallows, the public stocks and an efficient, if bribable, squad of town rangers.

It made a change in him right away and he dropped out of the boxing squad to get himself apprenticed to the Bugle Corps.

Information Amos Bulla fielded new questions like a man before a firing squad dodging bullets.

Malek, each took a squad and found a climbable place on the walls out of sight, around a square jutting corner.

The which in steade of squadred lyneament, did contayne a roundnesse waued betweene, in the which was maruellously ingrauen a little sacrifice with an olde Aultar on eyther sides, with manie figures and actions, the rest that was voyde, the tayles of the foresayde Harpyes ioyning togeather, and turning heere and there into leaues, did excellently couer the same.

This was Captain Cozenage, whose record while in charge of the Homicide Squad was without parallel in the annals of crime: as a result of which he had been, in rapid succession, switched to the Loft Robberies, Pigeon Drop, Unlicensed Phrenologists, and Mopery Squads: and was now entrusted with a letter-of-marque to suppress steamboat gamblers on the East River.

Of course, in later years, when players customarily resembled skyscrapers, men of his build would be at a severe disadvantage and might not even make the squad, let alone a team.

A bitter smile cracked open her lip: she would trade the professional opportunity of a lifetime for an operational SLIC and the sight of Danner and a squad of Mirrors humming over the snow on their sleds.

Paterollers would go out in squads at night and whip any darkies they caught out that could not show passes.