Usually means: Groups of military aircraft or ships.
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  1. squadrons: Merriam-Webster
  2. squadrons: Collins English Dictionary
  3. squadrons: Vocabulary.com
  4. Squadron's, Squadrons, squadron's, squadrons: Wordnik
  5. squadrons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. squadrons: Wiktionary
  7. squadrons: Dictionary.com
  8. squadrons: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Squadrons: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Squadrons: Encyclopedia

(Note: See squadron as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (squadron)

noun:  (obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square.
noun:  (military, historical, army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
noun:  (military) A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
noun:  (military, navy) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer
noun:  (military, air force) A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
noun:  (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.
verb:  (transitive) To divide up into squadrons.
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