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# squad

«squad» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small group of people who work or train together…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a squad, squads)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [The whole squad heard his mum, from the bottom of the stairs, at full volume: «OLLIE!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/4/)
- [Mia's squad kept losing because all four of them wanted to be the sniper and nobody wanted to heal anyone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/12/)
- [The next day the squad played without him, and nobody said why, because nobody had to.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/4/)
- [Kai's squad reported him, and a few days later he was banned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/25/)
- [The squad stopped believing him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «squad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.