teams

Noun

team (plural teams)

1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
   • It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
   • We need more volunteers for the netball team.
3. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
   • she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....
4. (UK, 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.
   • 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...1871, Alexander M. Burrill, Law Dictionary & Glossary, volume II
5. A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
   • 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...2019 December 27, Bill Chappell, “People Can't Even Agree On When The Decade Ends”, in NPR

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