a group of military aircraft or ships forming a section of a military force (空军或海军的)中队 a bomber/fighter squadron 轰炸机/战斗机中队
Oxford Collocations DictionarySquadron is used before these nouns:- commander
- leader
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally denoting a group of soldiers in square formation): from Italian squadrone, from squadra ‘square’.