WORKING PARTY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved

Example:

the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks

Synonyms:

working group; working party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("working party" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "working party"):

expedition (an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose)