team
noun/tiːm/
[countable + singular or plural verb]Слово англійською: team
Переклад team українською: команда
Детальний опис
- a group of people who play a particular game or sport against another group of people
- a football/basketball/soccer team
- They play volleyball for the national team.
- We played against a team from the neighbouring school.
- (British English) Whose team are you in?
- (North American English) Whose team are you on?
- The team is/are not playing very well this season.
- a team event (= one played by groups of people rather than individual players)
- a group of people who work together at a particular job
- a team member/leader
- a member of the senior management team
- She leads a research team of twenty scientists.
- He joined the legal team five years ago.
- team of somebody A team of experts has/have been called in to investigate.
- He works with a team of researchers.
- She was part of the design team working on the project.
- as a team We're learning to work together as a team.
- two or more animals that are used together to pull a cart, etc.
Word OriginOld English tēam ‘team of draught animals’, of Germanic origin; related to German Zaum ‘bridle’, also tow, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin ducere ‘to lead’.
Idioms
take one for the team (informal)
- to give up something that is important to you or to do something that is unpleasant in order to benefit your friends or colleagues
- Sometimes you have to take one for the team.
- I know it sounds unfair, but we need you to take one for the team.