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group work

noun

, Sociology.
  1. a method, used by professional social workers, of aiding a group or members of a group toward individual adjustment and increased participation in community activity by exploiting the mechanisms of group life.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of group work1

First recorded in 1940–45

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Example Sentences

He took the majority of the first-team reps in Friday’s session, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, after previously either observing or just throwing to receivers and joining limited group work.

Three of the six members of the group work on the channel full time, but Sep has a full time job as a mechanical engineer.

But most of us in the group work full time, and have to take vacation time to do this.

With the first of the Building Gifts enters a new variety of group work, which was not adapted for the first and second gifts.

The sticks are especially serviceable for group work of various kinds, either at the long or square tables.

The group work at the square tables is now especially beautiful, both when forms of symmetry or object forms are constructed.

It is well to have some group work, so that the pupils may learn to beat larger quantities.

And have you pursued, really pursued your interests in group work ever since?

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