brigadier
pronunciation
How to pronounce brigadier in British English:
UK [ˌbrɪgəˈdɪə(r)]
How to pronounce brigadier in American English:
US [ˌbrɪgəˈdɪr]
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- Noun:
- a general officer ranking below a major general
Word Origin
- brigadier (n.)
- 1670s, "officer in command of a brigade," from French brigadier, from brigade (see brigade).
Example
- 1. Brigadier chea keo is the deputy commander of the cambodian military region .
- 2. Asked whether he needed more troops , brigadier tim radford , commander of british troops in helmand , replied : " I have enough forces to do what I set out to do in panther 's claw . "
- 3. Her father , a brigadier in the biafran army , chose to keep her at home rather than send her to relatives abroad .
- 4. But the decision has been branded an act of ' unconscionable vandalism ' by one brigadier and came under fire from a tory mp .
- 5. Pakistan arrested brigadier ali khan for his ties to hizb-ut-tahrir , a banned islamist group .