SWAT team
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3.8
- noun
- /swɑt tim/
- Jargon
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- To tackle the recent data breaches, the organization created a cybersecurity SWAT team that works around the clock.
- SWAT team member
Examples
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Much to the chagrin of established librarians, we do have library swat teams that periodically purge the history that lives on the shelves in favor of more contemporary titles.
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The company formed a SWAT team to quickly address the urgent issues affecting production.
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One night, a Scrub Team, the Hand's version of a SWAT team, is sent to kill Gideon and Rachel.
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When agencies actually do things wrong, like if the Department of Education is running around acting like a SWAT team to force kids on Ritalin, or Fisheries starts kidnapping people or whatever, I hope people would be all over that news.
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In an interview, Mr. Penn said he is assembling a "SWAT team" to work on thorny strategy questions around Microsoft consumer projects.
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During a crisis, the manager called in a SWAT team of experts to resolve the ongoing operational challenges.
Synonyms
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5.6
A police team that moves quickly to deal with emergencies
A group of police officers with special training and weapons who handle very dangerous situations like armed suspects or hostages
A police unit trained to handle violent situations like hostage crises and armed standoffs
A police team trained to handle violent, dangerous events like armed standoffs or hostage crises
How Urgent
Surface Forms
Morphology
SWAT + team
The phrase pairs 'team' (a group) with 'SWAT', which many learners could interpret from the verb 'swat' as to strike rapidly, allowing a B1 learner to infer a group that responds quickly to problems. However, the full institutional sense (an acronym denoting a specialized tactical/police unit or a formal rapid-response business unit) is not directly derivable from the constituents, so the connection is only partial.
Etymology
SWAT team was later copied by businesses to describe a small, fast group of experts who come in to fix a serious, urgent problem. So in a company a SWAT team means a temporary group that works quickly to solve an emergency.