squadron
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Is squadron a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square.Examples: "Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined."obsolete
2. (military, historical) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.historical
3. (military) A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
4. (military, navy) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officerExamples: "the North Atlantic Squadron"
5. (military, air force) A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
6. (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.Space-ForceUS
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To divide up into squadrons.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary