A group of people organized for a common purpose.
Used in a Sentence
brigade
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for brigade.
Editorial note
Death threats from Internet brigade squads are wildly different from actual death threats you need to worry about.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
A group of people organized for a common purpose.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of brigade gathered in one view.
To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.
(military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for brigade.
noun
A group of people organized for a common purpose.
verb
To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.
noun
(military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
noun
(derogatory) A group of people who share views or a specific characteristic.
Example sentences
Death threats from Internet brigade squads are wildly different from actual death threats you need to worry about.
Either you're a card carrying member of the boring universe brigade or you believe everything on Rense.com.
Its fine to say whatever you like, except you have no right to assemble a downvote brigade.
And this is true no matter how much the international 50-cent brigade wants to diminish it.
A FPH brigade causes 10,000 extra visitors, thousands of extra votes, and hundreds of comments.
And yet ShitRedditSays is allowed to vote brigade as much as it wants.
The entire purpose of SRS is to brigade and single out individual Redditors, and I've seen the results firsthand.
It seems a hard pill to swallow for the PC brigade (as it implies that people are actually different in ability and work ethic) - but that doesn't mean it's not true.
Maybe they do brigade but they're so small it doesn't matter?
As in, maybe there are one or two cases per year worldwide where a troll brigade carries out some real-world action corresponding to its threats.
The censorship of whoever happens to brigade your posts (maybe with sockpuppets, or external links) is not any more free, or pleasant, than any other censorship.
It definitely plays into the hands of the anti-EU brigade.
Quote examples
There's a pretty vocal brigade of "rabble rousers"(for lack of a better term) at Google.
Loved the photo's caption of the "laptop brigade", lol.
That doesn't mean they have the right to stop people from complaining about how they control their website, or from deciding they don't want to use Github because of it, and neither of those things is an infringement of Github's rights no matter how much the "it's not censorship" brigade want to spin it that way.
Ellen got so much shot for the "we're banning actions not ideas" quote (in this thread even) yet here's an example of it being used - leaving absolutely vile subs live because they don't brigade and banning subs when they do brigade and she's getting shit for that too.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use brigade in a sentence?
Death threats from Internet brigade squads are wildly different from actual death threats you need to worry about.
What does brigade mean?
A group of people organized for a common purpose.
What part of speech is brigade?
brigade is commonly used as noun, verb.