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team
[ teem ]
noun
- a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
a football team.
- a number of persons associated in some joint action:
a team of advisers.
- two or more horses, oxen, or other animals harnessed together to draw a vehicle, plow, or the like.
- one or more draft animals together with the harness and vehicle drawn.
- a family of young animals, especially ducks or pigs.
- Obsolete. offspring or progeny; lineage or stock.
verb (used with object)
- to join together in a team.
- Chiefly Northern U.S. Older Use. to convey or transport by means of a team; haul.
verb (used without object)
adjective
- of, relating to, or performed by a team:
a team sport; team effort.
team
/ tiːm /
noun
- a group of people organized to work together
- a group of players forming one of the sides in a sporting contest
- two or more animals working together to pull a vehicle or agricultural implement
- such animals and the vehicle
the coachman riding his team
- dialect.a flock, herd, or brood
- obsolete.ancestry
verb
- whenintr, often foll by up to make or cause to make a team
he teamed George with Robert
- tr to drag or transport in or by a team
- intr to drive a team
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- inter·team adjective
- under·teamed adjective
- un·teamed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
The following page details a tribute gag the Simpsons team inserted into the background of a scene.
Alpha Team was killed, Faal told the FBI, while the Bravo members who were not gunned down fled.
Accordingly, she had the boys to hitch a team to a buggy and took him driving over the great estate.
Well, from what little I've seen and heard of him, he'd be a whole team if he's willing to throw in with us and take a chance.
You had better go to him, Dolly, and bid him good bye, before he takes the team to the field.
And the team moved on, and poor Dolly, more ashamed of her errand than ever, went into the house.
They booked their places and paid their money, and were proud to sit behind their friend with such a splendid team.
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