working group

English

Noun

working group (plural working groups)

1. An interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers working on new research activities that would be difficult to develop under traditional funding mechanisms such as federal agencies.
2. Any more or less formal team working for a specific purpose.

Synonyms

• workgroup
• working committee
• working party

Coordinate terms

• task force

Translations

any more or less formal team working for joint purpose

• Basque: lantalde
• Danish: arbejdsgruppe c
• Dutch: werkgroep (nl)
• Esperanto: laborgrupo
• Estonian: töörühm
• Finnish: työryhmä (fi)
• French: groupe de travail m
• German: Arbeitsgruppe (de) f
• Hebrew: קבוצת עבודה
• Indonesian: kelompok kerja
• Italian: gruppo di lavoro m
• Korean: 워킹그룹 (wokinggeurup), 실무단 (silmudan)
• Malay: kumpulan kerja
• Maori: rōpū awheawhe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidsgruppe m or f

  Nynorsk: arbeidsgruppe f

• Persian: گروه کاری
• Russian: трудовой коллектив (ru) m (trudovoj kollektiv)
• Spanish: grupo de trabajo m
• Swedish: arbetsgrupp (sv) c, arbetsutskott (sv) n
• Ukrainian: трудовий колектив m (trudovyj kolektyv)
• Vietnamese: nhóm làm việc, nhóm công tác