working party
Britishnoun
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a committee established to investigate a problem, question, etc
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a group of soldiers or prisoners assigned to perform some manual task or duty
Example Sentences
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A few of the people who had sheltered in his cellar organized a working party to gather his remains and take them back down Kvitkova Street.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022
For months a joint working party has been looking at ways to relax the travel ban.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2021
“Labelling and classification depend on traceability,” says John Dupré, a philosopher of science at the University of Exeter, UK, who will serve on the Nuffield working party on livestock.
From Nature ● Sep. 29, 2016
“The WTO accession process is based on consensus, and as of now, there are a number of countries that oppose appointing a chair to Iran’s working party on accession.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2016
Also, she had seen the working party gnawing industriously at the base of a tall poplar.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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