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# squad

noun (a squad, squads)

«squad» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A squad is a small group of people who work or train together, especially a sports team or a group of soldiers or police. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#m1)
2. A squad is the full group of players a coach can choose a team from. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#m2)
3. (slang) Your squad is your group of close friends: «me and my squad». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#m3)

### In the lessons

In PE and sport, the school football squad trains together and the coach picks the team from the squad. In news and police stories: «the bomb squad», «the drugs squad», «a firing squad». In slang, «squad goals» means a friend group to admire. Phrases: «the school squad», «make the squad», «squad training», «bomb squad», «flying squad».

### Examples

- I made the netball squad this year! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#x1)
- The coach named an eighteen-player squad for the final. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#x2)
- Squad training is on Tuesday after school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#x3)
- The bomb squad made the old shell safe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#x4)
- A squad of soldiers marched past. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#x5)
- Me and my squad are going to the park. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#x6)
- The whole squad cheered when Amira scored. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#x7)

### Note

Countable: «a squad, two squads». In British English a squad can take a plural verb: «the squad are training». A squad is usually bigger than a team on the pitch: the team is the players who actually play. Slang sense is informal.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «squad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«squad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/squad.html) on Mova free.