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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.

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Obsolete. offspring or progeny; race or lineage.

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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.

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verb (used without object)

to drive a team.

10.

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

adjective

11.

of, pertaining to, or performed by a team: a team sport; team effort.

Origin:
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

Related forms

in·ter·team, adjective

un·der·teamed, adjective

un·teamed, adjective

Synonyms
10. combine, unite, ally, merge.

Usage note
See collective noun.

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If this course includes any work on team dynamics and team processes, let me know.

Here, a team of free-divers and conservationists put their safety on the line to separate shark attack myths from realities.

It's fourth and goal, and your team is down by three points with seconds left in the game.

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If this course includes any work on team dynamics and team processes, let me know.

Here, a team of free-divers and conservationists put their safety on the line to separate shark attack myths from realities.

It's fourth and goal, and your team is down by three points with seconds left in the game.

Yet these astronomers are members of a team that is the best in the planet-hunting business.

Now he's launching a racing team and dreaming up new ways to market motorsports.

The team saw that all of them had the same pattern--long, unconnected channels branching from a point at the top of the finger.

The team says this may mean brain reorganization came before a big jump in brain size in humans.

When you're working on a project with team members in different locations, it's especially difficult to hold a productive meeting.

The research team seeks ten volunteers from each state, five urban and five rural.

The various archaeologists on the team have had to take periodic breaks from shoveling and shifting to do interviews.

Instead he gave the key to other team members, who used the room to organize their attack.

The team also implanted vascular grafts constructed from human donor cells into baboons.

The team began excavating what they thought was a midden, a pile of trash left behind when a settlement or camp is abandoned.

We usually say the football is roundIf you could guess which team is champion, you would be god.

With no way to hire guards for the site on the eve of a three day holiday weekend, the team had to complete the job right away.

Next, the team put the superconducting circuit into a superposition of two states, one with a current and the other one without.

The team collects invertebrates from a heavily silted stream.

Getting your team to agree collectively to how meetings will work will help things run smoothly in the future.

The team seems to reflect these tensions, with rumours of tribal divisions.

Every animal has a personalized diet, designed by a team of zoo nutritionists.

See how a husband-and-wife design team remodeled their garage and turned it into a guest house and office.

All of the parts were used by the team at some point, though it's not clear if the parts come from this season's cars.

At any given moment, some college somewhere is choosing a new mascot or team nickname.

The team is constantly looking for opportunities to evolve and innovate in this fast-moving space.

When opponents of a game are equally matched, the team dressed in red is more likely to win, according to a new study.

Strong interpersonal skills and a desire to work as part of a team and to interact with the higher education community.

Within each team a worker is expected to be able to do all the tasks required of the team.

Instead of finding sprites, the team caught something totally unexpected.

Nissan knows this, and it is setting up a rapid-reaction team.

She/he will be responsible for building a strong team of professionals and an infrastructure to support the goals of this office.

When only doxycycline was added to the mixture, the yellow team prevailed.

The team plans to go slowly and take breaks on a series of ledges inside the crater.

Squyres and his team are showing how to conduct robotic missions--and setting the stage for human exploration.

Freeth's team deciphered previously illegible inscriptions on the wooden walls that housed the mechanism.

Eventually the team wants to let music scholars share the algorithms they create by incorporating them into the service.

But the league's players and its team owners are now arguing over how to divvy up the spoils.

Coping with injury and death, the team decides to press on.

But inside, a hard-traveling team of art conservators packs an arsenal of high.

McLendon, said the three scientists were probably willing to come only as a team.

Having a dog within a team could improve efficiency.

One team of overnight owlers found luck last night with two species, the eastern screech owl and the barred owl.

So a report from an international team of scientists that they have.

The team plants what amounts to a new garden every six months and completely redesigns the parterre about every five years.

Ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team environment.

Many players are malnourished: those being tested for the national team get hot meals as well as coaching.

The owl team donned night-vision goggles and headed.

They exist only as supercomputer simulations of molecule-sized machine parts produced by a team of researchers at the.

His team of experts found that the ship's demise was self- inflicted--likely the result of a coal bunker fire.

He and his team also use thermal infrared imaging to count the number of bats in huge colonies and to study their behavior.

Digging ability in dinosaurs also suggests they could survive harsher environments than previously thought, the team says.

As a farmer, he has shunned the use of tractors and plowed his land with a team of horses.

The team will not post new voting ballots and dispatches on.

Marcellin-Little and his team make the first incision and begin to clear away the skin and muscle.

Howard and her team pioneered speedy techniques for monitoring hormones in urine to predict ovulation.

The departmental support may consist of team teaching and various community outreach programs.

When the islanders arrive, the team tries to play matchmaker.

Experimenters team up in the search for an invisible, hypothetical particle.

With further investigation, she and her research team discovered that what were thought to be three species.

So far, the team has found links between certain gut-specific genetic markers and obesity and other diseases.

He says that his team has yet to try to impregnate female monkeys with embryos derived using the new method.

Team contests based on work affiliations have had mixed success in recent years.

No matter where team loyalties lie, football fans unite every season for food-filled game days.

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World English Dictionary

team (tiːm)

—n
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

—vb (when intr, often foll by up)
7.	to make or cause to make a team: he teamed George with Robert
8.	(US), (Canadian) (tr) to drag or transport in or by a team
9.	(US), (Canadian) (intr) to drive a team

[Old English team offspring; related to Old Frisian tām bridle, Old Norse taumr chain yoking animals together, Old High German zoum bridle]

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Word Origin & History

team

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

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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.

team

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.

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