league vs squad

league

noun
  • An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. 

  • A group or association of cooperating members. 

  • A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. 

  • The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). 

  • A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. 

  • A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟). 

  • An alliance or coalition. 

verb
  • To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. 

squad

noun
  • A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen. 

  • Sloppy mud. 

  • One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps. 

  • A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members. 

  • A collective noun for a group of squid. 

verb
  • To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad. 

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