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squad

  [skwod] ,noun, verb, squad⋅ded, squad⋅ding.
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–noun
1. a small number of soldiers, commonly 10 privates, a staff sergeant, and a corporal; the smallest military unit.
2. a group of police officers, esp. one organized to deal with a particular area of law enforcement: drug squad; fraud squad.
3. any small group or party of persons engaged in a common enterprise.
4. a sports team or a group of players from which a team is selected.
–verb (used with object)
5. to form into squads.
6. to assign to a squad.
Origin:
1640–50; < F esquade, alter. of esquadre < Sp escuadra square; so called from square shape of the formation
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Word Origin & History

squad 
1649, "small number of military men detailed for some purpose," from Fr. esquade, from M.Fr. escadre, from Sp. escuadra or It. squadra "battalion," lit. "square," from V.L. *exquadra (see square). Until the introduction of automatic weapons, infantry troops tended to fight in a square formation to repel cavalry or superior forces. Sports sense is recorded from 1902.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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