- a large group of soldiers that forms a unit of an army
- A special army brigade is to be formed.
- a brigade of infantry
- units in 1st Commando Brigade
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- airborne
- armoured/armored
- combat
- …
- command
- lead
- form
- …
- commander
- headquarters
- in a/the brigade
- brigade of
- [usually singular] (often disapproving) used, always with a word or phrase in front of it, to describe a group of people who share the same opinions or are similar in some other way
- the anti-smoking brigade
see also fire brigade
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French, from Italian brigata ‘company’, from brigare ‘contend’, from briga ‘strife’.
Idioms
See brigade in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe heavy mob/brigade
- (British English, informal) a group of strong, often violent people employed to do something such as protect somebody
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