support group

noun

1. a group of people who meet regularly to support or sustain each other by discussing problems affecting them in common, as alcoholism or bereavement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of support group¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

What saved her, she told Salon, were the members of the virtual postpartum support group she joined after she’d had her son in 2020.

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Harried Lisa sends Eleanor off to the JCC for a choir class, but the impulsive and feisty nonagenarian pooh-poohs the Broadway singing and instead follows a friendly face into a support group — for Holocaust survivors, she’s alarmed to discover.

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It’s hard to stomach her continued lying, which is perhaps why the script keeps her mostly out of the support group — where the comparison to the real survivors would be too much to bear — and in the confines of a friendship with a college student far removed from that reality.

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More ominously, is an applicant who joined a support group for an eating disorder or pornography addiction required to disclose their membership in these groups?

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Shana and I met in an online support group.

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