Team Definition & Meaning

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  • Synonyms team American [teem] / tim /

    noun

    1. a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest.

      a football team.

    2. a number of persons associated in some joint action.

      a team of advisers.

    3. two or more horses, oxen, or other animals harnessed together to draw a vehicle, plow, or the like.

    4. one or more draft animals together with the harness and vehicle drawn.

    5. a family of young animals, especially ducks or pigs.

    6. Obsolete. offspring or progeny; lineage or stock.

    verb (used with object)

    1. to join together in a team.

    2. Chiefly Northern U.S. Older Use. to convey or transport by means of a team; haul.

    verb (used without object)

    1. to drive a team.

    2. to gather or join in a team, a band, or a cooperative effort (usually followed by up, together, etc.).

      Synonyms: merge, ally, unite, combine

    adjective

    1. of, relating to, or performed by a team.

      a team sport; team effort.

    team British / tiːm /

    noun

    1. a group of people organized to work together

    2. a group of players forming one of the sides in a sporting contest

    3. two or more animals working together to pull a vehicle or agricultural implement

    4. such animals and the vehicle

      the coachman riding his team

    5. dialect a flock, herd, or brood

    6. obsolete ancestry

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    verb

    1. to make or cause to make a team

      he teamed George with Robert

    2. (tr) to drag or transport in or by a team

    3. (intr) to drive a team

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    Grammar

    See collective noun.

    Usage

    What does team mean? A team is a group of people who work together in a joint action, as in Our Academic Decathlon team was made up of some of the smartest kids in our school.A team is also a group of people on one side of a contest or game, such as a soccer team or a trivia team.A team is also two or more draft animals, such as horses, harnessed together to pull something, like a plow or a cart.To team up is to form a group to work together, as in Miles and Lex teamed up to study for the big science test next month.Example: My team is working hard on these software solutions for streaming platforms.

    Other Word Forms

    • interteam adjective
    • underteamed adjective
    • unteamed adjective

    Etymology

    Origin of team

    First recorded before 900; Middle English teme (noun), Old English tēam “child-bearing, brood, offspring, set of draft beasts”; cognate with Dutch toom “bridle, reins,” German Zaum, Old Norse taumr

    Example Sentences

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    British Curling employs a nutritionist who successfully argued that there is no reason curlers should not approach food in the same way as a Tour de France team.

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    Winning the hard way, getting maximum points from a bare minimum performance, is something that title-winning teams do too.

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    In the first half of the ice dance competition at Milan-Cortina, they performed to their popular Spice Girls mix - but could not match the season-best score they secured in the team event three days earlier.

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    The prime minister wore the smiles of a survivor and his team wore expressions of relief.

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    But they snapped a four-game skid with just their fourth road win of the season, this one against a Knicks team that came in tied for the second-most home wins in the league with 21.

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    Related Words

    • club
    • company
    • lineup
    • organization
    • party
    • side
    • squad
    • unit

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