transcription, транскрипция: [ gru:p ]
( groups, grouping, grouped)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A group of people or things is a number of people or things which are together in one place at one time.
The trouble involved a small group of football supporters...
The students work in groups on complex problems.
N-COUNT-COLL : oft N of n
2.
A group is a set of people who have the same interests or aims, and who organize themselves to work or act together.
...the Minority Rights Group...
Members of an environmental group are staging a protest inside a chemical plant.
N-COUNT : usu supp N
3.
A group is a set of people, organizations, or things which are considered together because they have something in common.
She is among the most promising players in her age group...
As a group, today’s old people are still relatively deprived.
N-COUNT : usu supp N
4.
A group is a number of separate commercial or industrial firms which all have the same owner. ( BUSINESS )
The group made a pre-tax profit of £1.05 million.
...a French-based insurance group.
N-COUNT : usu supp N
5.
A group is a number of musicians who perform together, especially ones who play popular music.
At school he played bass in a pop group called The Urge.
...Billy Bragg’s backing group.
= band
N-COUNT
6.
If a number of things or people are grouped together or group together , they are together in one place or within one organization or system.
The fact sheets are grouped into seven sections...
The G-7 organization groups together the world’s seven leading industrialized nations...
We want to encourage them to group together to act as a big purchaser.
VERB : be V-ed prep , V pl-n with together , V together , also V n prep
7.
see also grouping , blood group , ginger group , pressure group