working party
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3.6
- noun
- UK
:
grupo de trabajo
- In response to the SEC's request, the chairs of the Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence/Emerging Technologies Sections of the American Accounting Association (AAA) constituted a working party with a charge to comment on the proposed rule on behalf of the two sections.
Examples
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The committee formed a working party to address the concerns of the employees.
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The working party planned three complementary strategies.
Academic text (2002) -
I'll set up a working party immediately.
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So a bilateral working party was established to pursue the issue.
Academic text (1995) -
Canada is currently chairing a working party of key member countries to produce these guidelines.
Academic text (1999) -
I would strongly urge we revise the organization of the working parties.
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A working party has been set up to finalize the details of this one to see how it might work, but it has yet to report.
Academic text (2014) -
The paper concludes with a summary of the core elements of the working party's submission and implications for accounting research.
Academic text (2005) -
While opinions in our working party varied somewhat on this point, the consensus was that we recommend that the SEC not require auditors to attest to the data.
Academic text (2005) -
It is central to the thinking of this working party that the purpose of the early stages of ministerial education should not be to provide the knowledge and skills that will be necessary throughout ministry, but to establish the patterns of learning, piety, and competence that will sustain an appetite for continued growth.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A group of people who work together to reach a shared goal
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3.2
A group of people who meet to discuss and make decisions about something
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1.4
A group of people who go somewhere together to do one activity
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3.3
A group of people who work together for a short time to do a specific job
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1.7
A group of people gathered for a short time to do something
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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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3.2
A group of people who do a physical task together, like clearing fallen trees
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'working' modifies 'party' to indicate a group of people engaged in work on a task, so the overall sense can be derived from the parts. This modifier–noun pattern is regular in English and has close equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Working party comes from the simple image of a small party, meaning a 'group' of people, who are working together for a short time. That's why it now means 'a temporary group set up to do a specific task'.