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WORKING PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does working party mean? 

WORKING PARTY (noun)
  The noun WORKING PARTY has 1 sense:

1. a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achievedplay

  Familiarity information: WORKING PARTY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WORKING PARTY (noun)


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 party" 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 party"):

expedition (an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose)


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