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語源

Borrowed from French brigade.

発音

• IPA: /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/
• 韻: -eɪd

名詞

brigade (plural brigades)

1. A group of people organized for a common purpose.

   a work brigade; a fire brigade

2. (military) A military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
3. (derogatory) A group of people who share views or a specific characteristic.

   More sympathy for career criminals from the bleeding-heart brigade!

   I wouldn't even want to be seen dead with those nerds of the bowl-cut brigade.

4. (Internet slang) Coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing, especially organized by an antagonistic website or community.
   • 2020, “Comments of Reddit, Inc., before the Federal Communications Commission, Washington DC”, in fcc.gov‎, archived from the original on 31 October 2020:

     We've definitely seen an increase in abusive content since certain areas began COVID lockdowns and stay home orders, we suspect because of the growth of people having time to waste doing these sorts of brigades.

使用する際の注意点

• In many countries, a military brigade was traditionally formed from two or more regiments. According to the country and time period, brigade may also designate a much smaller group of soldiers. A modern US brigade usually consists of three battalions and forms part of a division.

引用

• 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 228:

  The rifle brigade had arrived in Soldau with no commander, no staff, no artillery, just four separate regiments, each of them moving as it thought best and looking for something to do.

派生語

関連する語

• brigadier
• brigadier general

動詞

brigade (third-person singular simple present brigades, present participle brigading, simple past and past participle brigaded)

1. To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.
   • 1969, William O. Douglas's opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio:

     This is, however, a classic case where speech is brigaded with action.

2. (Internet slang) To harass an individual or community online in a coordinated manner.

アナグラム

• Abridge, abridge, bigrade