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- noun A member of the Spanish International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Viega was also explaining to me what he has said; about the sugar worker with 50 years 'experience who wanted to know when workers like him would be recognized as well; the problem about the micro-brigadista who said that he had gone and built houses and now they were not applying the coefficient to him.
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Today, he is the last surviving Canadian brigadista - one of the men and women who came from around the world to defend Spain's fledgling republic from the fascism of General Francisco Franco.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ADRIAN MORROW 2012
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But understand that all this began with Elián González, "insists Hernández, the old brigadista from the Bay of Pigs.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Ed Vulliamy 2010
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Report this comment] Posted by: brigadista on Nov 27, 2009 10: 35 PM
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Report this comment] Posted by: brigadista on Nov 27, 2009 10: 35 PM
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