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team

  [teem]
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–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, esp. ducks or pigs.
6. Obsolete. offspring or progeny; race or lineage.
–verb (used with object)
7. to join together in a team.
8. Chiefly Northern U.S. Older Use. to convey or transport by means of a team; haul.
–verb (used without object)
9. to drive a team.
10. to gather or join in a team, a band, or a cooperative effort (usually fol. by up, together, etc.).
–adjective
11. of, pertaining to, or performed by a team: a team sport; team effort.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME teme (n.), OE tēam child-bearing, brood, offspring, set of draft beasts; c. D toom bridle, reins, G Zaum, ON taumr

Synonyms:
10. combine, unite, ally, merge.

Usage note:
See collective noun.
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team   (tēm)   
n.  

  1. Sports & Games A group on the same side, as in a game.

  2. A group organized to work together: a team of engineers.

    1. Two or more draft animals used to pull a vehicle or farm implement.

    2. A vehicle along with the animal or animals harnessed to it.

  4. A group of animals exhibited or performing together, as horses at an equestrian show.

  5. A brood or flock.

  6. Obsolete Offspring; lineage.

v.   teamed, team·ing, teams

v.   tr.

  1. To harness or join together so as to form a team.

  2. To transport or haul with a draft team.

v.   intr.

  1. To form a team or an association. Often used with up.

  2. To drive a team or truck.


[Middle English, team of draft animals, from Old English tēam; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

team  (n.)
O.E. team "set of draft animals yoked together," from P.Gmc. *taumaz (cf. O.N. taumr, O.Fris. tam, Du. toom, O.H.G. zoum, Ger. Zaum "bridle"), probably lit. "that which draws," from *taugmaz "action of drawing," from series *taukh-, *tukh-, *tug-, represented by O.E. togian "to pull, drag" (see tow), from PIE *deuk- "pull" (related to L. ducere "to lead;" see duke). Applied to people in O.E., especially "group of people acting together to bring suit." Team spirit is recorded from 1928. Teamwork is recorded from 1828 in the lit. sense, 1909 in the extended sense.

team  (v.)
1552, "to harness beasts in a team," from team (n.). The meaning "to come together as a team" (usually with up) is attested from 1932.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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