noun · academic
team
/tiːm/TEAM
Band 5-6task2speaking
a group organized to work together on a task or project
Examples
“A multidisciplinary team of researchers conducted the longitudinal study.”
“The project team met weekly to discuss methodology.”
“He joined the research team as a data analyst.”
Band 8 sentence
“A multidisciplinary team collaborated to synthesise the findings and produce policy recommendations.”
Collocations
- research team
- project team
- team members
Word family
team noun / verbteammate nounteamwork nounteam up phrasal verb
Common mistakes
The team are analysing the data.→The team is analysing the data.
He was selected to play for team university.→He was selected to play for the university team.
Say it for a higher band
5group→6staff→7+team
Synonyms
group
committee
Easily confused
group
“The research group included several independent scholars, but only a subset formed an effective team.”
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