teamwork

English

Etymology

From team +‎ work. Compare West Frisian teamwurk (“teamwork”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

teamwork (uncountable)

1. The cooperative effort of a team of people to achieve a common goal.
   • 2003, Sonic Team USA, Sonic Heroes, Sega, published 2003, PlayStation 2, Windows, GameCube, Xbox, level/area: Last Story:

     Sonic: OK then, let’s get ready to do this. We’ll show that creep the REAL SUPER POWER of TEAM WORK!

   • 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:

     Having put partisan interests to one side, Greenwood set about making teamwork a watchword for her chairmanship, while seeking the broadest possible participation in subsequent inquiries.

Derived terms

• teamwork makes the dream work (proverb)

Translations

cooperative effort of a team

• Afrikaans: spanwerk
• Bulgarian: съвместна работа f (sǎvmestna rabota)
• Catalan: treball en equip (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 團隊合作 / 团队合作 (tuánduì hézuò), 全隊合作 / 全队合作 (quánduì hézuò), 團隊協作 / 团队协作 (tuánduì xiézuò)

• Danish: gruppearbejde n
• Dutch: groepswerk n, teamwork (nl) n
• Esperanto: gruplaboro, teamlaboro
• Finnish: ryhmätyö (fi), tiimityö (fi)
• French: travail d’équipe (fr) m, travail en équipe m
• German: Gruppenarbeit f, Teamarbeit f, Teamwork n, Kollektivarbeit f
• Hungarian: csapatmunka (hu)
• Indonesian: kerja tim
• Italian: lavoro di squadra m
• Japanese: チームワーク (ja) (chīmuwāku)
• Korean: 팀워크 (timwokeu)
• Malay: kerja berkumpulan
• Maori: mahi awheawhe, mahi tahi, mahi rōpū, awheawhetanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: teamarbeid n

  Nynorsk: teamarbeid n

• Persian: کار گروهی (kâr-e goruhi)
• Polish: praca zespołowa f
• Portuguese: trabalho de/em equipe m
• Russian: рабо́та в кома́нде f (rabóta v kománde), рабо́та в коллекти́ве f (rabóta v kollektíve), коллекти́вная рабо́та f (kollektívnaja rabóta)
• Spanish: trabajo en equipo m
• Swedish: grupparbete (sv) n, teamarbete n
• Turkish: takım çalışması
• West Frisian: teamwurk n
• Yoruba: ìfọwọ́sowọ́pọ̀, ìjùmọ̀ṣiṣẹ́

Anagrams

• workmate

Dutch

Etymology

From English teamwork.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: team‧work

Noun

teamwork n (uncountable)

1. teamwork