单词 | teamwork |
释义 | teamworkn. 1. Usually as two words or hyphenated. Ploughing, hauling, or other work (esp. farm work) carried out using a team of draught animals. Now chiefly in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > work done by teams of beasts teamwork1800 society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > teamwork > by team of operatives teamwork1800 society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > teamwork > with team of beasts teamwork1800 1800 W. Brooke True Causes Present Distress for Provisions 18 How is the ploughing, the drawing, and all kind of team-work to be performed without horses? 1830 Farmers' Jrnl. 6 Dec. 389/1 They also increased the amount of the church and highway rates, and of the contribution of team work in repairing the roads. 1909 Exper. Station Work (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 3 357 These horses were used for general farm and team work on the station farm. 1936 E. G. Grest Econ. Anal. Farm Power in Alberta & Sask. 3 13 of these [farms] employed horses for other work on the farm such as hauling feed, stones, and other team work. 1992 J. S. Guest Euphrates Exped. vi. 58 Oxen had for centuries provided the power to move things overland, but many of the bullocks..were ill adapted to team work. 2. Usually as two words or hyphenated. In manufacturing: a system in which an item is made by a number of individuals, each taking responsibility for a particular part or component, rather than the whole product.Team work (and the division of labour it entailed) was seen as a method used by manufacturers to reduce costs. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > types of production teamwork1870 mass production1893 secondary industry1930 flow production1937 mass customization1985 1870 N.-Y. Times 3 Dec. 8/2 There are 3,000 or 4,000 hands employed on team work alone [in shoemaking]. 1877 Census Mass. 1875 (Massachusetts Bureau Statistics Labor) II. p. liv By team work is meant a species of work made use of to some extent in manufacturing boots and shoes,..signifying a combination of men where the labor of all—each doing a particular part—is necessary to the production of a single article. 1887 Mrs. H. Campbell Prisoners of Poverty ii. 26 What is known as ‘team work’, flaps [of shirts] being done by one, bosoms by another, and so on. 1906 Cosmopolitan Mag. 42 328/2 The clothing-trade, with its subdivisions of labor, its system of piece or ‘team’ work. 1987 P. A. Cooper Once Cigar Maker iv. 112 In 1902 the Syracuse local struck against the large Justin Seubert Company to force it to abandon team work. 2007 R. D. Lansbury et al. in P. R. J. Holland et al. Employment Relations Asia-Pacific Region ii. 21 The organization of team work in the Quebec plant was different from Ulsan. 3. a. In sports: the action or fact of a team playing together as a cohesive unit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > actions exchange1604 measuring cast1647 winner1811 glovework1822 piledriver1858 cockshot1861 legwork1868 footwork1871 winning stroke1884 teamwork1885 benching1904 three-sixty1927 wrong-footing1928 power play1932 major1951 sharpshooting1976 1885 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 20 May 4/5 The fourth game of the series..was..won by the visitors by superior team work and base running. 1890 Logansport (Indiana) Chron. 19 July 4/5 It will take at least a season's campaign..to get..up to the point of team work which gave the Giants the world's championship. 1920 E. R. Silvers Dick Arnold plays Game xvii. 183 Their passing became surer, their teamwork more fully developed, their entire play smoother. 1957 Times 17 Sept. 12/7 Faulty passing and poor team work gave London a 2-1 defeat by Lausanne. 2015 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 8 June Waterford's fitness, strength, skill and teamwork have brought them to a Munster final. b. In general use: the action or fact of working together effectively or cohesively; successful collaboration or cooperation by a team of people. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > teamwork band work1879 group work1880 teamwork1896 society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > [noun] > team > combined action of teamwork1896 team effort1903 1896 Amer. Medico-surg. Bull. 11 July 36/1 The faculties are necessarily heterogeneous, each professor following his own fads and too often harshly criticising such of his colleagues as may differ from him. There is no attempt at ‘team-work’ in these aggregations of wisdom. 1909 World To-day Sept. 949/1 Trade extension through cooperative effort, or team work, is prosecuted by almost as many methods as there are cities. 1977 Lancet 23 Apr. 899/2 We need hospitals, hostels, and homes, but we must be sure that by effective communication and teamwork.., the service we offer is of the highest. 2004 BusinessWeek 1 Nov. 48/1 At Yum, he was credited with expanding multibrand outlets and fostering teamwork. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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