squad

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French escouade.

Alternative forms

• escouade (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskwɒd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈskwɑːd/

• Audio (AU):

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  • Rhymes: -ɒd

Noun

squad (plural squads)

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.
   • 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:

     A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.

3. (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
4. (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.

Derived terms

• firing squad
• flying squad

Related terms

• squadron

Translations

people organized

• Armenian: ջոկատ (hy) (ǰokat)
• French: escouade (fr) f
• German: Gruppe (de) f
• Greek: διμοιρία (el) f (dimoiría)
• Hungarian: csapat (hu), brigád (hu)
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• Ido: esquado (io)
• Russian: гру́ппа (ru) f (grúppa), кома́нда (ru) f (kománda)
• Spanish: escuadra (es) f, cuadrilla f, escuadrón (es) m
• Swedish: trupp (sv) c

unit of tactical military personnel or police officers

• Armenian: ջոկատ (hy) (ǰokat), ջոկ (hy) (ǰok)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 战队 (zhànduì (戰隊))

• Esperanto: skadrono
• Estonian: jagu
• Finnish: ryhmä (fi)
• French: escadron (fr) m
• Hungarian: osztag (hu), egység (hu), csapat (hu), különítmény (hu), szakasz (hu), csoport (hu)
• Ido: esquado (io)
• Japanese: 戦隊 (ja) (sentai)
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• Khmer: ក្រុម (km) (krom)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lag (no) n

  Nynorsk: lag n

• Persian: جوخه (fa) (juxe)
• Polish: szwadron (pl) m, oddział (pl) m
• Portuguese: esquadrão (pt) m
• Russian: отря́д (ru) m (otrjád), кома́нда (ru) f (kománda), отделе́ние (ru) n (otdelénije)
• Spanish: escuadrón (es) m
• Swedish: trupp (sv) c

sports team

• German: Mannschaft (de) f
• Greek: ομάδα (el) f (omáda)
• Hungarian: keret (hu), csapat (hu)
• Indonesian: skuat (id)
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• Polish: drużyna (pl) f, ekipa (pl) f
• Russian: кома́нда (ru) f (kománda)
• Spanish: plantilla (es) f, escuadra (es) f, conjunto (es) m, cuadro (es) m
• Swedish: lag (sv) n, trupp (sv) c

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

squad (third-person singular simple present squads, present participle squadding, simple past and past participle squadded)

1. (intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.

   We squad on the fifth of the month.

Etymology 2

mid 17th century: shortening of French escouade, variant of escadre, from Italian squadra (“square”)

Noun

squad

1. (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• quads

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Spanish

Noun

squad m (plural squads or squad)

1. squad