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squad room

5.2

A room in a barracks where soldiers sleep and keep their things

noun
/skwɑd ruːm/

: sala de escuadra

Each squad room was inspected daily by the sergeant.

Examples

After evening roll call, the soldiers gathered in the squad room to relax.
The new recruits kept their belongings neat and tidy in the squad room.
The squad room was too small for all the soldiers.
The squad room is always clean.
After evening roll call, the soldiers gathered in the squad room to relax.
Each squad room was inspected daily by the sergeant.
The new recruits kept their belongings neat and tidy in the squad room.

Synonyms

military quarters

vssquad room

3.7

Places on a military base where soldiers live

is a single room housing a group rather than broad accommodations

quarters

vssquad room

2.9

Rooms or buildings where a group of people live, like soldiers

is a single room inside a barracks housing a group rather than whole buildings

How Communal

barracks

2.3

dormitory

10 3.0

squad room

5.2

private setting

1 3.4

Surface Forms

squad room singular

squad rooms plural

Morphology

squad + room

The meaning 'a room in a police station where officers gather' is directly derivable from combining 'squad' (a small unit/team) with 'room' (an indoor space). The productive compound pattern 'X room' (e.g., 'bedroom', 'staff room') is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.

Etymology

Squad room comes from the word squad (a small group of soldiers) and room (a space to live). In army barracks the whole squad shared one room for sleeping, keeping their kit and meeting, so the phrase came to mean 'a room where a squad lives'.