team

[ teem ]

/ tim /

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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.

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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

SYNONYMS FOR team

10 combine, unite, ally, merge.

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Related formsin·ter·team, adjectiveun·der·teamed, adjectiveun·teamed, adjective

Usage note

See collective noun.

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Examples from the Web for teaming

Yet Paul has consistently entertained the notion of teaming up with Assad.
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Agents of Kochs, the brains behind Hobby Lobby, and some rather awful Russian oligarchs are teaming up to take away LGBT rights.
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As they started The Line, Robert and Michelle had no hesitation about teaming up.
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Peter Pilotto For Target Breaks Records: Teaming up with Net-A-Porter.
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Paltrow will be teaming up with fashion designer Michael Kors to create a special Christmas line.
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He had taken a house near the Methodist church and gone into the business of teaming.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
What must a terrific thunderstorm mean to that teaming mass of humanity?
The Magic Curtain|Roy J. Snell
He had been teaming in the nearby woods, and the blacksnake whip was in his hands.
Rolf In The Woods|Ernest Thompson Seton
Ploughing, teaming, and drawing produce to market, and going up and down hills.
Beautiful Joe|Marshall Saunders
On arriving in Ohio, he first obtained employment at chopping wood and teaming, in Lorain county.
Cleveland Past and Present|Maurice Joblin

British Dictionary definitions for teaming

team

/ (tiːm) /

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 teaming (1 of 2)

team

1550s, "to harness beasts in a team," from team (n.). The meaning "to come together as a team" (usually with up) is attested from 1932. Related: Teamed; teaming.

Word Origin and History for teaming (1 of 2)

team

Old English team "set of draft animals yoked together," from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (cf. Old Norse taumr, Old Frisian tam, Dutch toom, Old High German zoum, German Zaum "bridle"), probably literally "that which draws," from *taugmaz "action of drawing," from series *taukh-, *tukh-, *tug-, represented by Old English togian "to pull, drag" (see tow), from PIE *deuk- "pull" (related to Latin ducere "to lead;" see duke (n.)). Applied to people in Old English, especially "group of people acting together to bring suit." Team spirit is recorded from 1928. Team player attested from 1886, originally in baseball.

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team

noun (sometimes functioning as plural)

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