team

Meaning

Noun

1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
3. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
4. (obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
5. A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

Verb

1. To form a group, as for sports or work.
2. To go together well; to harmonize.
3. To convey or haul with a team.
4. To form together into a team.
5. To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

Verb

Misspelling of teem.

Concepts

team

group

crew

squad

band

detachment

unit

company

party

set

gang

force

shift

collective

collection

bunch

staff

cluster

side

crowd

troop

body

flock

family

assembly

personnel

herd

swarm

train

class

staff member

workforce

series

session

troupe

haul

pull

brigade

group of workers

team up

collaborate

common

pack

workshop

platoon

section

army

circle

ship’s company

yoke

bunch gang

workers

expedition

partners

command

commanding

relay

stock

litter

beam

harness

match

community

nest group

bloc

queue

working committee

working group

contingent

band together

pair off

unite

men

work force

stable

worker

war-party

task force

workgroup

co-worker

assortment

whole

outfit

ascension

barrel

barren

battery

bed

bevy

bike

boar

brace

brood

building

bury

business

busyness

cartload

cete

chowder

clamour

cloud

clowder

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

field

flight

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

harras

hirsel

hive

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

leash

mob

murder

murmuration

mustering

nest

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

pounce

pride

raft

rookery

rout

school

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

sounder

span

string

stud

tiding

tittering

tribe

trip

wedge

ship's company

oversight

superintendence

supervision

surveillance

vigilance

society

union

annulus

anulus

combi

set-up

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tiːm/

Etymology

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

Sentences

Roger , the backup team is on the way .

This combination of colours are traditional for the national team since their first game .

The journeyman can , however , be quite valuable in the team sports context .

The S . W . A . T . entry team used an optical wand to observe the proceedings behind the door .

Together they competed in the mixed team recurve event .

He established himself as the first-choice goalkeeper in the Essen team .

Walter Fernandez , Junior leads the magazine's team , with publications committee chair Edgar Burcksen.