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

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

Although they were never an officially sanctioned user group, WMC members nonetheless went to battle to set the Hong Kong narrative on Wikipedia.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2021

When they met, in the Lisp user group, they both were working as coders and unfulfilled by their office jobs.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019

"The community reaction was pretty much uniform," recalls Rich Morin, leader of a Unix user group at the time.

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