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coalition
English
Alternative forms
- coälition (rare)
Etymology
From French coalition (“coalition”), from Late Latin alo (“I advance (cause, etc., communion)”).
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: k??l?'sh?n, IPA(key): /ko???l???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
coalition (countable and uncountable, plural coalitions)
- A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
- The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
- (rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
- 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, "How cricket netted the hipsters", London Evening Standard
- Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.
- 2014 September 6, Darren Boyle, "Running wild! Mother cheetah has SIX cubs keeping her busy by jumping, hiding and climbing all over her", The Daily Mail
- Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.
- 2015 June 11, "This is the moment an ostrich attempts to outrun cheetahs in Sir David Attenborough's latest show", Bristol Post
- This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.
- 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, "How cricket netted the hipsters", London Evening Standard
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- coalition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- coitional
French
Alternative forms
- coälition (rare)
Etymology
From Late Latin coalitus (“fellowship, communion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.a.li.sj??/
Noun
coalition f (plural coalitions)
- coalition
Further reading
- “coalition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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squad
English
Etymology 1
From French escouade, from Italian squadra (“square”) (whence also French escadre).
Alternative forms
- escouade (archaic)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?skw?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?skw?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
squad (plural squads)
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:
- A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.
- 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- 1970, TV Guide:
- At one point, the 400-ton Calypso was brought to a standstill by a squad of squid which clogged the engines and caused a power failure. Other, highlights included an attack by predatory blue sharks, […]
- 2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, Let's Go Publications:
- The Sea Life Centre retains a squad of squid and such.
- 2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 546:
- There's several new symbols next to the doorway symbol. Beso pushed all six of them without waiting to see what they brought; like a herd of charging rhinos or rampaging squad of squid. Next best thing though.
- 2017, Kristen Joy Wilks, Athens Ambuscade, Pelican Ventures Book Group (?ISBN)
- I pulled in as deep a breath as my gag allowed and began relaxing my body. I used a little trick I'd learned in college. I imagined that a friendly squad of squid were massaging every muscle on the bottoms of my feet; the tension began to drain.
- 1970, TV Guide:
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
Derived terms
- firing squad
- flying squad
- God squad
Related terms
- squadron
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Verb
squad (third-person singular simple present squads, present participle squadding, simple past and past participle squadded)
- (intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.
- We squad on the fifth of the month.
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Compare squick (“disgust”), squalid (“dirty”) with similar initial sounds.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skwæd/
Noun
squad
- (Britain, dialect) Sloppy mud. [from the mid-17th c.]
- 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD:
- The lass ran all among the muck and squad.
- 1895, Alfred Tennyson, The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson: Poet-laureate, page 791:
- An' she did n't not solidly mean I wur / gawin' that waäy to the bad,
- Fur the gell was as howry a trollope as / iver traäpes'd i' the squad.
- 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD:
Further reading
- Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire (1886), page 140
Anagrams
- quads
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?kwad/, [es?kwað?]
Noun
squad m (plural squads or squad)
- squad
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