Usually means: Military unit consisting of aircraft.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. squadron: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. squadron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. squadron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. squadron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. squadron: Vocabulary.com
  6. Squadron, squadron: Wordnik
  7. squadron: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. squadron: Wiktionary
  9. squadron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. squadron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. squadron: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. squadron: Dictionary.com
  13. squadron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. squadron: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Squadron (TV series), Squadron (army), Squadron (aviation), Squadron (cavalry), Squadron (disambiguation), Squadron (naval), Squadron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Squadron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. squadron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. squadron: Rhymezone
  19. squadron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. squadron: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. squadron: Free Dictionary
  22. squadron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. squadron: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. squadron: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Squadron: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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