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team

See also: Team, te-am, and teám

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

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team (plural teams)

  1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
  2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
    We need more volunteers for the netball team.
    The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
  3. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
  4. (UK, law, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
    • 1871, Alexander M. Burrill, Law Dictionary & Glossary‎[1], volume II:
      TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.
  5. A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
    • 2019 December 27, Bill Chappell, “People Can't Even Agree On When The Decade Ends”, in NPR‎[2]:
      As Jan. 1, 2020, approaches, it turns out there is a Team Zero and a Team 1 – those who believe the new decade will begin after midnight on the upcoming New Year's Eve and those who believe the burgeoning celebrations of a new decade (and all the "last decade" retrospectives) are in fact a year early.
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  • In British English, team is construed as plural, emphasizing the members. In US English it is construed as singular, emphasizing the group. This conforms to the general practice in the two dialects for collective nouns.
    • British English:
      2012, Institute of Leadership & Management, Building the Team‎[3], page 124:
      At the storming stage, the team are trying to establish relationships with one another, and to determine who will take the dominant roles.
    • American English:
      2010, William G. Dyer, W. Gibb Dyer, Jr., Jeffrey H. Dyer, Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance‎[4]:
      When a subordinate wants to give feedback to a boss, this is typically only done in a roundabout way through the “grapevine” (other members of the team), usually when the team is out at night drinking.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Armenian: թիմ (tʻim)
  • → Bengali: টীম (ṭim)
  • → Cantonese: team
  • → Catalan: tim
  • → Czech: tým
  • → Dutch: team
    • → Indonesian: tim
  • → Esperanto: team
  • → Finnish: tiimi
  • → German: Team
  • → Hausa: tim
  • → Hindi: टीम (ṭīm)
  • → Italian: team
  • → Japanese: チーム (chīmu)
  • → Korean: 팀 (tim)
  • → Macedonian: тим (tim)
  • → Maori: tīma
  • → Marathi: टीम (ṭīm)
  • → Northern Kurdish: tîm
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: team
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: team
  • → Pashto: ټيم (ṭim)
  • → Persian: تیم (tim)
  • → Polish: team
  • → Portuguese: time (Brazilian)
  • → Romanian: team
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
  • → Slovak: tím
  • → Swahili: timu
  • → Swedish: team
  • → Tagalog: tim
  • → Thai: ทีม (tiim)
  • → Tok Pisin: tim
  • → Urdu: ٹِیم (ṭīm)
  • → Welsh: tîm
  • → West Frisian: team
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Verb

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team (third-person singular simple present teams, present participle teaming, simple past and past participle teamed)

  1. (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
    Synonym: team up
    They teamed to complete the project.
  2. (intransitive, by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
    • 2005, Jill Dupleix, Good Cooking: The New Basics, page 32:
      Rich, creamy avocado is cut back by the citrus sharpness of grapefruit in this Israeli-inspired salad. It's brilliant for a brunchy breakfast, and teams well with grilled salmon, tuna, or mackerel for dinner.
  3. (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
    to team lumber
    • 1857, Henry David Thoreau journal entry for Feb. 4 1857
      the farmer has been all winter teaming wood along the river
  4. (transitive) To form together into a team.
    to team oxen
  5. (transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.
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Interjection

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team

  1. (video games, colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.

Etymology 2

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team

  1. Misspelling of teem.

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Chinese

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Etymology

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From English team.

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team

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) a group of people working in cooperation and involved in the same activity (Classifier: 條／条 c)

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team

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for teams of people.

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English team, from Middle English teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Doublet of toom.

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team n (plural teams, diminutive teampje n)

  1. team (group of people)
    Synonym: ploeg

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Italian

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Unadapted borrowing from English team.

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team m (invariable)

  1. team (group of people)
    Synonyms: squadra, gruppo

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Middle English

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team

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of tem (“group”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From English team.

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team n (definite singular teamet, indefinite plural team, definite plural teama or teamene)

  1. a team

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From English team.

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team n (definite singular teamet, indefinite plural team, definite plural teama)

  1. a team

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Old English

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From Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“pull, draw”).

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tēam m (nominative plural tēamas)

  1. childbirth
  2. family, offspring
  3. a team of draught animals
  4. an Anglo-Saxon legal procedure in a stolen goods suit

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative tēam tēamas
accusative tēam tēamas
genitive tēames tēama
dative tēame tēamum
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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English team.

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team m inan

  1. team (well-coordinated group of people working together)
  2. (sports) team
    Synonym: drużyna

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Declension of team
singular plural
nominative team teamy
genitive teamu teamów
dative teamowi teamom
accusative team teamy
instrumental teamem teamami
locative teamie teamach
vocative teamie teamy

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  • team in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • team in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Unadapted borrowing from English team.

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team n (uncountable)

  1. team (sports)

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Declension of team
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative team teamul
genitive-dative team teamului
vocative teamule

Swedish

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Etymology

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From English team.

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team n

  1. a team (at a job, or more generally)

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Declension of team
nominative genitive
singular indefinite team teams
definite teamet teamets
plural indefinite team teams
definite teamen teamens

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Tyap

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team (plural team)

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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From English team.

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team

  1. team (group of people)
    Synonym: đội

West Frisian

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Etymology 1

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From Old Frisian tām, from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.

Noun

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team c (plural teammen, diminutive teamke)

  1. bridle
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  • “team (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English team.

Noun

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team n (plural teams, diminutive teamke)

  1. team
    Synonym: ploech
    Sirkulaasjefollybal is in fariant op it gewoane follybal, mei 4 spilers yn elts team.
    Mini-volleyball is a variation of normal volleyball, with 4 players on each team.
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