user group

American  

[yoo-zer] / ˈyu zər /

Or user's group

noun

Computers.

1. a club in which owners of a specific computer or software program exchange information or services, as about purchasing or troubleshooting.

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Etymology

Origin of user group

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

According to the assessment, dredging benefited “a small, short-term user group compared to the deleterious effects for the larger recreational groups during the full summer.”

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

“Editing Wikipedia from a bomb shelter is difficult,” said Mykola Kozlenko, the president of the Wikimedia Ukraine user group.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2022

In the latest post, Google says it observed a 50 percent decrease in accounts being compromised among that test user group.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2022

In the user group, they found they had overlapping intellectual interests and complementary programming skills.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019

As the leader of a SunOS user group, one of Morin's primary duties during the 1980s had been to send out distribution tapes containing the best freeware or free software utilities.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam