Synonyms of brigades

brigades 1 of 2

noun

plural of brigade

as in teams

a group of people working together on a task

a clean-up brigade put the parish hall back in good order

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teams
• platoons
• armies
• crews
• battalions
• squads
• companies
• parties
• gangs
• troops
• bands
• corps
• outfits
• troupes
• departments
• forces
• staffs
• stables
• administrations
• hosts
• help
• posses
• personnels

brigades

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verb

present tense third-person singular of brigade

as in bands

Related Words

• bands
• rallies
• piles
• herds
• groups
• musters
• stacks
• flocks
• balls
• swarms
• heaps
• clusters
• throngs
• hives
• packs
• batches
• pools
• links
• bunches
• presses
• huddles
• constellates
• lumps
• merges
• combines
• raises
• unites
• bulks (up)
• joins
• connects
• congregates
• rounds up
• organizes
• corrals
• accumulates
• systematizes
• assembles
• amasses
• archives
• garners
• collates
• regroups
• compiles
• collects
• concentrates
• gathers
• arranges
• scrapes (up or together)
• picks up
• regathers
• re-collects

Dissimilar Words

• scatters
• disperses
• dissipates
• dispels
• separates
• dissolves
• disintegrates
• splits (up)
• breaks up
• sends
• severs
• disbands
• dismisses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of brigades

Noun

So far, no mainstream Democratic politician has seemed willing to stir up the hornet’s nest by taking on the progressive brigades. — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

In their Two Marines Substack newsletter, Lee and Putiata describe Drone Line, a concept that grouped Russian drone units by depth behind the front rather than attaching them to individual brigades. — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

The efforts are partly funded through a partnership between Bunge Foundation and IBAMA to support training and equipment for up to 40 Indigenous brigades across five states in the Cerrado and the Amazon. — ABC News, 7 June 2026

Though the reality is more complex, as Cuba also uses the brigades to raise funds for the government. — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 3 June 2026

Their brigades are like one out of six that work. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026

In Cairo, a famously nocturnal city, shops and restaurants are now forced to close at 9 pm, with police brigades sweeping through the broad downtown avenues to urge everyone to go home. — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 14 Apr. 2026

The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a powerful recapitulation of earlier moments in American military history, moments which make clear the blind alley down which Hegseth is charging his brigades at full speed. — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2026

Some of them are regular reserve units, but some of them are specific reserve units called regional-defense battalions, and there are regional brigades in the West Bank that have regional-defense battalions under them, which are units made up mostly of settlers. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026