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Meanings of working party in English

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

Usage of working party in English
1
The report of this working party was not accepted by the college.
The Irish Times
2
But a working party will decide what the next steps will be.
Radio NZ
3
All I know is that one of the working party got away.
The Clue of the Twisted Candle
4
A working party fitting electric leads and adjusting bombs prior to discharge.
The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War
5
Form a working party on establishing an equitable house temperature acceptable to all.
The Guardian
6
All regional councillors will also be members of the working party.
Radio NZ
7
He had already heard one working party complaining to the bosun about it.
In the King's name
8
But it was only another working party, splicing, stitching, repairing: a sailor's lot.
Cross of St. George
9
This working party was about a hundred strong, assembled from the reserve regiments.
The street philosopher
10
But haste, for a working party may be here presently to repair it.
Greenmantle
11
They were going off later into No Man's Land on a working party.
The Great War As I Saw It
12
He will remain as a councillor and working party member.
Radio NZ
13
The working party was always a thousand strong, and shifts, of course, were constant.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
14
Dr Kerry Grundy is the convenor of the inter-council working party on GMO risk evaluation.
Radio NZ
15
A working party under Wasim Khan has just been set up to ponder all this.
The Guardian
16
A third victim whom I saw was brought in at daybreak by a working party.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
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Working party through the time
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