noun
team
TEEM
noun
1
A group of people working or playing together toward a shared goal.
"The sales team hit its target three months early."
"Our football team won the championship this year."
verb
1
To join together with others, especially to work well as a group.
"The two rivals decided to team up on the new project."
How to Use Team
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA group of people (or the act of joining together) working toward a common goal.
Common pairings
team up
a team player
team spirit
join the team
Word Forms
teamed past tense, teams plural, teams singular
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Etymology
From Old English team, originally meaning offspring or a set of animals harnessed together to pull something — the sense of "a group working together" grew out of that image of animals pulling as one.