search party
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2.6
- noun
- /sɜːrtʃ ˈpɑːrti/
:
equipo de búsqueda
- After several hours, a search party was organized to look for the missing hiker.
- send a search party
- organize a search party
- form a search party
And of course the other search party members were there now, weirdly.
- And of course the other search party members were there now, weirdly.
- In those cases, sending out a search party might have worked, although I didn't have any more of that specific one.
- Don't you want people to know that's like quietly launching a search party?
Examples
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And I've formed a search party ready to go within the hour.
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And a search party was quickly formed, and she joined it.
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I went out with one of the search parties.
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We need to get a search party up here.
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We were gonna send out a search party for you two.
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We were gonna send out a search party.
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On the third day, a search party was sent out to look for the girl.
Fiction book (1998) -
Three days later the sheriff formed a search party.
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We need to organize and send out a search party.
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Shaka, our German Shepherd, was part of the search party that went to look for Pauline.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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2.7
A group of people who are sent to save others in danger
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3.4
A planned effort to find and help people who are lost or in danger after an emergency
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'search' (an effort to locate) with 'party' (a group assembled for a task), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer 'a group organized to look for someone'. This noun-noun composition follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of transparent compounding and therefore is readily comprehensible.
Etymology
Search party comes from the simple image of people forming a party to search, who walk in lines through fields or woods to find someone lost. That's why it means 'a group organized to look for someone who is missing'.