work group

noun

variants or workgroup

plural work groups or workgroups

: a group of people who work together: such as

a

: an organized group of coworkers within a business or other organization

Thousands of unpaid amateurs joined him and then eventually organized into work groups.

—Mattathias Schwartz, New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2011

During the first lunch, he sought employees' reaction to the company's recent wave of downsizings, which had included their work group.

—Joan E. Rigdon, Wall Street Journal, 10 Aug. 1994

b

: working group

… a psychiatry professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and head of the APA [American Psychiatric Association] work group on sexual disorders for the latest edition of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders …

—Betsy Morris, Fortune, 10 May 1999

Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined above

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