team.html - {v. phr.} To join with; enter into companionship with. * /My brother prefers to do business by himself rather than to team up with anybody else./

team.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a set of players forming one side in a game (a cricket team).
2 two or more persons working together.
3 a a set of draught animals. b one animal or more in harness with a vehicle.

--v.

1 intr. & tr. (usu. foll. by up) join in a team or in common action (decided to team up with them).
2 tr. harness (horses etc.) in a team.
3 tr. (foll. by with) match or coordinate (clothes).

team-mate a fellow-member of a team or group. team spirit willingness to act as a member of a group rather than as an individual. team-teaching teaching by a team of teachers working together. [OE team offspring f. a Gmc root = 'pull', rel. to TOW(1)]

team.html - n.
1 US a lorry-driver.
2 a driver of a team of animals.

team.html - n.
the combined action of a team, group, etc., esp. when effective and efficient.

team.html - See: CUP OF TEA also DISH OF TEA.

team.html - {v. phr.} To show that bad behavior can be harmful. * /When Johnny pulled Mary's hair, she taught him a lesson by breaking his toy boat./ * /The burns Tommy got from playing with matches taught him a lesson./