support group

American  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of support group

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

When Ms. Hillgrove visits a support group in San Francisco, the discussion is not about getting a dog or crossing the street, but how badly the speakers miss doing small things they once did so casually, and how much they dislike relying on others.

From The Wall Street Journal

It has “become an emotional support group,” he said, with so many of them struggling on the job market.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was 49, a full-time professor of sociology and humanities at Vanier College in Montreal and a mother raising five teenagers; she’d tried to start a support group with friends, but everyone was too busy to schedule a second meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal

And so, in March 1984, tinkering with the personal computer she had bought her children for Christmas, Cobb launched what she called “a support group through the mail.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But a friend from a support group then put Natalie in touch with surgeon Prof Reza Nouraei, consultant ear nose and throat surgeon at the QMC, after she started to find it very difficult to breathe.

From BBC