task force
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3.3
- noun
- /tæsk fɔrs/
:
grupo de trabajo
- The city established a task force to address the rising issues of homelessness.
- establish a task force
- create a task force
- a task force report
And so this task force has been meeting.
- And so this task force has been meeting.
- We're part of a allied task force to rid the world of evil.
- And so a task force is put together to investigate me.
- So we would be these states that got paid to send task forces to help.
- Didn't he also lead a task force?
- One of our team members was buddies with him on the JTTF, the terrorism task force in Chicago.
- You know, they, they get, they get busted by the, by the local task force.
- But Jeff Sessions says the task force is needed because religion is facing a secret threat.
Examples
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And so a task force is put together to investigate me.
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It's a task force of concerned citizens.
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And so this task force has been meeting.
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So we would be these states that got paid to send task forces to help.
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If there is a federal task force, I want to know about it!
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To be fair, the task force reports were not easy to find.
Academic text (2011) -
Why are there no policy groups or task forces aimed at supporting people in pain and their providers?
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We can have a task force ready to sail in 48 hours.
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I think that Mike Pence and the task force have done a fantastic job.
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It was a joint task force by both your companies.
Synonyms
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1.0
A group of people who work together to reach a shared goal
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2.3
An organized group of people like soldiers or police
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2.6
A temporary team of people who work together to reach a clear goal
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3.5
A group of people who do a task together for a project
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3.6
A group of people who work together for a short time on a single task
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3.2
A group of people who do a physical task together, like clearing fallen trees
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9.8
A group of workers who do a specific manual job
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'task' (a piece of work) with 'force' (an organized group or body): a group organized to carry out a task. This noun+noun composition follows a transparent, cross-linguistic pattern so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Task force comes from the military, where leaders put together a small force to do one task or 'mission'. That's why the phrase now means a temporary group put together to solve a specific problem.