| 词汇 | squad |
| 释义 | squad noun[ C, + sing/pl verb ] uk /skwɒd/ us /skwɑːd/ C2 a small group of people trained to work together as a unit: 小队;特别行动组 An army bomb squad arrived and defused the bomb.一个陆军拆弹小组赶到，拆除了炸弹。 the seizure of a large amount of heroin by the drug squad缉毒小组对大量海洛因的缴获 The company was under investigation by the fraud squad.这家公司正受到诈骗调查组的调查。 C2 a team in sports from which the players for a match are chosen: 运动队 Eight of their 24-man squad are injured.队里24人中有8人受伤。 In the army, a squad is a small group of soldiers, especially one brought together for drill (= marching, etc.) .（尤指集合操练时陆军的）班 Groups of people affinity group alliance an anti-gang assemblage clutch factionally family federation federative First Nation line (someone) up mob online community peer group phalanx posse public scratch syndicate You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Competitors & participants in sports & games Parts of armies & groups of servicemen squad | American Dictionarysquad noun[ C ] us/skwɑd/ a small group of people trained to work together as a unit: The rescue squad managed to free the child. Examples of squadsquad Other commonly encountered formations include women's groups for water or fuelwood collection, and village-level rotational digging squads. Most of the assistant investigative squad chiefs served concurrently as guard battalion chiefs. He is sentenced to die by firing squad. This street child ' industry ' generates a mythical stereotype of hungry, helpless orphans at the mercy of death squads. So, he maintains, the squads 'resembled a violent male teenage gang ' (p. 102). The house eventually fell to the demolition squads. Chapter six, with its focus on death squads, is symptomatic of this. Here the squads were used to greater effect. Despite their differences, a high degree of coordination existed between the investigative squads and guard battalions because of an overlapping leadership structure. The men and youths came to the rescue by counter-attacking the police squad. While the occasional ' ' victory march,' ' usually numbering several hundred people, was staged, picketing squads were always small, indicating that few people made a long-term commitment to the movement. Wholesale bribery and corruption of the liquor squad ensured tip-offs of impending raids on elaborate fortifications protected externally by a system of strategically placed lookouts and spies. With the objective of effectively protecting the forest wealth, particularly sandalwood and timber, seven forest protection squads besides a mobile patrol team were in operation till 1977. What fortuitous combination of circumstances, or what weird chance encounters of strangers, caused secret armies and assassin squads to invade the ivory towers of the classical composer? Members of squads which have fully absorbed this teaching will, on average, have higher survival rates than members of squads where the teaching has not taken hold. See all examples of squad These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withsquadsquadThese are words often used in combination with squad. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. cheerleading squad A cheerleadingsquad is also available. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. cheer squad It features the band performing the song in bright clothing, while being backed by a cheer squad. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. entire squad It made the entiresquad lack sharpness in matches. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with squad |
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