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WORKING GROUP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does working group mean?
• WORKING GROUP (noun)
The noun WORKING GROUP has 1 sense:
1. a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved
Familiarity information: WORKING GROUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
working group; working party
Context example:
the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks
Hypernyms ("working group" is a kind of...):
social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "working group"):
expedition (an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose)
Context examples
A chief rationale for peer review is that rarely is just one person, or one closely working group, able to spot every mistake or weakness in a complicated piece of work.
(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)
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