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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 achieved
Familiarity information: WORKING PARTY 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 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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