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单词 task force
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task force

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noun

Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
a group or committee, usually of experts or specialists, formed for analyzing, investigating, or solving a specific problem.

Origin of task force

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby task force

Tashkent, Tashlikh, tasimeter, task, taskbar, task force, taskmaster, taskmistress, task-oriented, taskwork, Tasm.
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Example sentences from the Web for task force

  • Tom had plotted a concentric search pattern, focused on the probable position worked out by the task-force computers.

    Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung|Victor Appleton
  • They knew that there was a fleet in being which had fought and annihilated a Mekinese task-force many times its size.

    Talents, Incorporated|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • Tom immediately contacted Art Wiltessa and the task-force ships.

    Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung|Victor Appleton
  • "I gather the Colonel's task-force was becoming insistent," I prompted him.

    Lone Star Planet|Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

British Dictionary definitions for task force

task force

noun

a temporary grouping of military units formed to undertake a specific mission
any semipermanent organization set up to carry out a continuing task
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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