1 a large group of soldiers that forms a unit of an army
2 [usuallysing.] (often disapproving) used, always with a word or phrase in front of it, to describe a group of people who share the same opinions or are similar in some other way:
the anti-smoking brigade
seealsoFIREBRIGADE
IDIOMS see HEAVYadj.
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