Confederacy vs Squad - What's the difference?
confederacy | squad | Related terms |
A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
* 1912 , in The New England magazine , volume 47:
(cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
(UK, dialect) sloppy mud
Confederacy is a related term of squad.
As a proper noun confederacy
is (historical) the informal name for the , the collection of american states that seceded from the united states in 1861, and fought against the union in the american civil war.As a noun squad is
a group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.squad
English
(wikipedia squad)Alternative forms
* escouade (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.
- (Tennyson)