unit
- noun
- /ˈjuːnɪt/
- "You just had a call from the intensive care unit at the Memorial," Wendy said.
- unit heads
- units and programs
- responding unit
So they came to our unit looking for this Lieutenant.
- So they came to our unit looking for this Lieutenant.
- And it was conducted by a Kenyan unit called the Rapid Response Team.
- And what that was is the unit was working off planet targets.
Examples
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In the intensive care unit, six doctors and 34 nurses are on duty for him.
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I am part of the Knowledge Exchange Unit at the UK Parliament.
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So they came to our unit looking for this Lieutenant.
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The Detective Unit is on the third floor.
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I was with a special unit called "Shadow Company."
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Can we be certain that this is the best social unit for raising children?
Academic text (2011) -
The group discussed work processes and made recommendations to the unit's shared governance council.
Academic text (2011) -
Gentlemen, I suggest we act as a unit... so there will be no question of mistaken reprisals.
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- Hello, you have reached Los Angeles Municipal Hospital's intensive care unit.
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Our unit worked together to complete the project ahead of schedule.
Synonyms
A group of people who work together to reach a shared goal
A number of people or things seen as one unit
A small group of people organized to do one job, like in the army or sports
A large military group made of two or more divisions and support
A group within a larger organization, like an orchestra or company team
A large unit in the army, air force or navy
A group of people organized to do a specific job, like soldiers or a ship crew
A large unit of soldiers made of several companies and led by a senior officer
A group of people organized to work or fight together
A military air unit of several aircraft and their crews
A group like a company or team that works together
A large group of soldiers made of several smaller units
A group of soldiers organized to fight or carry out military tasks
A group of soldiers that does a specific task
A group of soldiers organized as part of an army, like a platoon or company
A group of soldiers who fight on foot
A unit of soldiers organized to do a specific job for the armed forces
A group in an air force that uses aircraft for missions
A group of people who act together for a shared purpose
A ship or group of ships that a navy uses for military work
A part of an organization that manages specific tasks and services
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A hospital area where very sick patients get constant care and monitoring
- Specialized
A fixed amount used as a standard to measure length, weight, or volume
- Specialized
A hospital area where very small or sick newborns get constant medical care
- Specialized
Main chip in a computer that does most of the work and controls other parts
- Specialized
The average distance between the Earth and the Sun, about 150 million kilometers
- Specialized
A standard amount of time used to measure how long something lasts like a second or minute
- Specialized
A hospital department that gives close care to people with serious heart problems
- Specialized
A unit of measurement used in the metric system, like a meter or kilogram
- Specialized
A standard kind of money used in a country to measure value, like a dollar or yen
A group of civilians organized and trained like soldiers to support or replace the army
- Specialized
A unit of heat equal to the heat needed to raise one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit
- Specialized
A device that changes the sound of an instrument, like adding reverb or distortion
- Specialized
A standard unit used worldwide in science and industry like the meter or kilogram
The currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, called the convertible mark
- Archaic
A unit for measuring how bright a light is, using a candle as the standard
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how much liquid a container holds, like a liter or a gallon
- Specialized
An amount of resources a plan gives for services like storage or computer power
- Specialized
A unit that measures how much electric charge a part can store, like the farad
- Specialized
A standard size used to measure computer memory, like a byte or kilobyte
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how well a material carries electric current, for example the siemens
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how much space something takes up, like a liter or cubic meter
A unit used to measure how much space something has, like a cubic metre or cubic centimetre
- Specialized
A measure used to show how much space something takes, for example litres or cubic metres
- Specialized
A unit used to measure how a part resists storing electric charge, defined as one divided by capacitance
- Specialized
A unit for measuring electric charge used in an older measurement system
- Jargon
A team in film and TV that makes effects on set like explosions and computer images
- Specialized
A virtual group that holds users or devices so administrators can manage permissions
- Specialized
A very small unit of length equal to one ten-billionth of a meter used for light wavelengths and atoms
- Specialized
A block of disk space reserved for one file, the smallest amount a file can use
- Specialized
A unit of weight like a pound or ounce used in Britain and the United States
Money used in the Falkland Islands that has the same value as the British pound
- Specialized
A way to measure how strong a magnetic field is, for example tesla
- Specialized
A measure of how much magnetic or electric field passes through an area, for example the tesla
- Specialized
A small coin or unit worth one hundredth of the main unit of money
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word unit comes from the Latin unus 'one' and is like the words unite and unity. That's why a military or company unit is a group of people who work 'as one' inside a bigger organization.