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  • verb Present participle of brigade.

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Examples

  • When I walked down to the collection point, a small high school in the armpit of F.I.T., the place was swarming with volunteers, everyone busily bucket-brigading wrapped food or canned goods onto a bread truck.

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  • Bill: how about painting the Mousquetaires du Roi at 2 squadrons and then brigading them with your horse grenadiers, as they did historically?

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  • From the battle of Nakhl Mubarak we abandoned the brigading of

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  • The most serious were: brigading of Japanese with Chinese troops against Communists everywhere, employment of Japanese advisers in all branches of government, autonomy for five northern provinces, and reduction of tariffs to the level of 1928.

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  • In providing these troops, the old vexing question arose again of brigading units according to the states from which they came.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

  • In providing these troops, the old vexing question arose again of brigading units according to the states from which they came.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

  • In providing these troops, the old vexing question arose again of brigading units according to the states from which they came.

    Lee’s Lieutenants

  • In providing these troops, the old vexing question arose again of brigading units according to the states from which they came.

    Lee’s Lieutenants

  • In providing these troops, the old vexing question arose again of brigading units according to the states from which they came.

    Lee’s Lieutenants

  • But even with this brigading of the United States 'troops with the seasoned veterans, which, in plain language, meant a mingling of the two forces, there was much that was strictly American among the new arrivals.

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  • on reddit, brigading is where you rally up a group of people to upvote or downvote another reddit, user, or set of comments they posted.

    a group of people who perform this is a brigade

    June 15, 2016

  • Your definition makes sense, alexz, if the emphasis is put on a long 'a' for the middle syllable. If the emphasis is put on the first syllable it becomes the dinner bell in the ship's prison.

    June 15, 2016