| 单词 | work party |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswork party work party n. (a) a group of people (typically soldiers, sailors, prisoners, etc.) assigned to a task, esp. one involving manual or physical labour (cf. working party n. 1a, 1b); (b) a group of people working voluntarily on a task or project for mutual benefit, charitable purposes, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > group of workers > doing work of mutual or social benefit work party1823 work group1923 span1956 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > working party working party1744 party1805 working party1821 work party1823 1823 J. Hastie Narr. Voy. to Poyais 10 No measures had been adopted by the governor or other officers to divide the men into section or work parties, or to fix any of them on high ground before the rainy season set in. 1940 Sci. Monthly Nov. 435/2 It is a village work-party, with a measure of last season's rice as pay and, of course, a noontime dinner in the fields. 1957 R. Frankenberg Village on Border 20 They [sc. women] also work together in sewing groups and work-parties preparing material for sales-of-work. 1981 I. Boland tr. E. Ginzburg Within Whirlwind i. iii. 22 Many considered the shock of being drafted to a work party every bit as bad as being arrested. 2002 L. Purves Radio (2003) xvi. 225 A chance to..live for a week with the work-party of the explorer Tim Severin, who was building an Arabic ship..to follow the voyages of Sindbad the Sailor. < as lemmas |
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