squads
USSKWAHDZ/ˈskwɑdz/UKSKWODZ/ˈskwɒdz/
- 1Plural of squad.
Rescue squads searched the wreckage through the night.
Several drug squads coordinated the early-morning raid.
Note
A regular plural with one wrinkle worth noticing: each squad is already a group, so the plural counts groups, not people. The verb is plural (the squads were ready), even though a single squad is a collective of many members. The plural covers every kind the singular does: police and military units, pools of players in sport, and, in slang, several friend groups at once.
squads is a form of squad
squad, noun: A group of players available for selection as starters or substitutes on a team. Full entry
- Forms
- squadsquads plural
- Spelling
- squad → squads: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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