work party
noun
1A group of people (typically soldiers, sailors, prisoners, etc.) assigned to a task, especially one involving manual or physical labour.
2A group of people working voluntarily on a task or project for mutual benefit, charitable purposes, etc.
Origin
Early 19th century.
- patent still
- patent theater
- patent theatre
- patent troll
- patent trolling
- pater
- patera
- Pater Abbas
- Pateresque
- paterfamilias
- pater-guardian
- Paterian
- pateriform
- paterish
- paternal
- paternalise
- paternalism
- paternalist
- paternalistic
- paternalistically
- paternalize
- paternalized
- paternalizing
- paternally
- paternal roof