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teamer

[tee-mer]
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noun

a teamster.

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RELATED WORDS

competitive, recreational, harmonious, collegial, symbiotic, interdependent, united, concerted, reciprocal, collective, team, common, coefficient, sporting, contesting, agreeing, collaborative, collusive, combined, synergic

Nearby words

  1. team player,
  2. team spirit,
  3. team up with,
  4. team-mate,
  5. team-teach,
  6. teammate,
  7. teamster,
  8. teamsters union,
  9. teamwork,
  10. teaneck

Origin of teamer

First recorded in 1835–45; team + -er1

team

[teem]

noun

a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
a number of persons associated in some joint action: a team of advisers.
two or more horses, oxen, or other animals harnessed together to draw a vehicle, plow, or the like.
one or more draft animals together with the harness and vehicle drawn.
a family of young animals, especially ducks or pigs.
Obsolete. offspring or progeny; lineage or stock.

verb (used with object)

to join together in a team.
Chiefly Northern U.S. Older Use. to convey or transport by means of a team; haul.

verb (used without object)

to drive a team.
to gather or join in a team, a band, or a cooperative effort (usually followed by up, together, etc.).

adjective

of, relating to, or performed by a team: a team sport; team effort.

Origin of team

before 900; Middle English teme (noun), Old English tēam child-bearing, brood, offspring, set of draft beasts; cognate with Dutch toom bridle, reins, German Zaum, Old Norse taumr
Related formsin·ter·team, adjectiveun·der·teamed, adjectiveun·teamed, adjective

Usage note

See collective noun.
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British Dictionary definitions for teamer

team

noun (sometimes functioning as plural)

a group of people organized to work together
a group of players forming one of the sides in a sporting contest
two or more animals working together to pull a vehicle or agricultural implement
such animals and the vehiclethe coachman riding his team
dialect a flock, herd, or brood
obsolete ancestry

verb

(when intr, often foll by up) to make or cause to make a teamhe teamed George with Robert
(tr) US and Canadian to drag or transport in or by a team
(intr) US and Canadian to drive a team

Word Origin for team

Old English team offspring; related to Old Frisian tām bridle, Old Norse taumr chain yoking animals together, Old High German zoum bridle
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Word Origin and History for teamer
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