WORKING GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does working group mean? 

• WORKING GROUP (noun)
  The noun WORKING GROUP has 1 sense:

1. a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved

  Familiarity information: WORKING GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKING GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

working group; working party

Context example:

the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks

Hypernyms ("working group" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "working group"):

expedition (an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose)

 Context examples 

A chief rationale for peer review is that rarely is just one person, or one closely working group, able to spot every mistake or weakness in a complicated piece of work.

(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)