working bee

British  

noun

1. a voluntary group doing a job for charity

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Example Sentences

There is nothing feminine about a working bee but its anatomy.

From Time Magazine Archive

One ingenious fellow proposed crossing the working bee with the firefly, so it could work all night long by its own lantern.

From A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Sanborn, Kate

"Why, you are going to a working bee just the same as the big girls, aren't you?"

From Five Little Peppers and their Friends by Sidney, Margaret

The slothful man himself, may plainly see, That honey's gotten by the working bee.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

How could the working bee conserve the gains accumulated by experience or habit?

From The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments by Williams, William A. (William Asbury)