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great team

great team

39 1.4
A group of people who work well together to succeed
  • noun
translation icon : gran equipo
  • With a great team ready to support each other, we achieved our goals ahead of schedule.
  • make a great team
  • put together a great team
  • build a great team

You know, you create this great team of people around you.

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Examples

  • And I've been very fortunate to have a great team around me that helped me with that.

  • I have been so blessed to have always had a great team to work with.

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  • I have a great team of people around me.

  • So we remain a great team working together.

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  • We really make a great team.

  • First, you need a great team.

  • We make a great team.

  • You guys are a great team.

  • I am sure many of us are just so thankful we have a great team like this one!

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  • I mean, we've always had a great team of people working at Virgin.

Synonyms

team
vsgreat team
1.0

A group of people who work together to reach a shared goal

is a group that works very effectively to achieve success
A-team
vsgreat team
4 4.2

A group of the best people chosen for a difficult job

values strong joint performance by all members rather than selected elites
superteam
vsgreat team
1 4.0

A team of very skilled or famous people formed to win important competitions

focuses on collaboration and consistent effectiveness rather than star talent

Antonyms

76 6.1

A problem in the way a body part, system, or group works

Not able to produce the result you want

How Effective

great team
39 1.4
average
739 1.3

Surface Forms

great team singular
great teams plural

Morphology

great + team

The meaning 'a group of people who work together very effectively' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'great' (very good/excellent) with 'team' (a group working toward a goal); this is a basic adjective + noun composition that B1 learners can readily interpret. The pattern is cross-linguistically common and non-idiomatic, so knowing the constituents is sufficient to infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

The phrase great team may come from the image of people pulling together, like rowers in a boat. When everyone helps and moves as one, the team goes faster and works better, so great team means a group that works very well to 'succeed'.