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task force

noun

Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
a group or committee, usually of experts or specialists, formed for analyzing, investigating, or solving a specific problem.

task force

First recorded in 1940–45

Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

It had been a headline case, and a task force of over a hundred detectives had been assigned to investigate.

Hopes that the travel restrictions would contain the disease failed, as the task force reported its continued spread.

Just three years earlier, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS launched a task force to study the impact of the move.

It languishes on what is known as the gray list overseen by the Financial Action Task Force, an inter-governmental body.

I was counting the jewels in the Pearly Gates when your task force came along.

The Idaho was part of a task force that included a carrier, cruisers, and several destroyers.

The task force to which the ship belonged and the attacking Jap planes had both vanished.

"I gather the Colonel's task-force was becoming insistent," I prompted him.

Yes, I am sure that your task force will steam to within easy flying distance of Truk.

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