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working party

working party noun: a committee or group appointed to study and report on a particular question and make recommendations based on its findings.

Noun

working party (plural working parties)

  1. (UK) A committee or group appointed to study and report on a particular question and make recommendations based on its findings.
  2. A group of people working together on a particular project or subject.
    • This outline programme was compiled by a working party consisting of members from the Regional Planning Office, the civil, mechanical and electrical, and signal engineering departments and the traffic services, on the basis of much groundwork done within each of these departments.1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 720

Forms of working party

pluralworking parties

Questions about working party

What does working party mean?
Working party means a committee or group appointed to study and report on a particular question and make recommendations based on its findings.
What part of speech is working party?
Working party is a noun.
What is the plural of working party?
The plural of working party is working parties.

Words near working party in the dictionary

  1. working over
  2. working papers
  3. working part
  4. working parties
  5. working parts
  6. working party
  7. working poor
  8. working pressure
  9. working pressures
  10. working proof
  11. working proofs

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