brigade• There would be an attack but his brigade did not have to advance.• The troops were organized into brigades and divisions.• the back-to-nature brigade• In the Midwest, snowmobilebrigadesdelivered food and medicine.• He was 35, married with 2 children and had been in the brigade for 11 years.• I bend down and resumesorting and liftingrocks to the other men and women in the brigade.
Originbrigade
(1600-1700)FrenchItalianbrigata, from brigare“to fight”, from briga“fighting”