Meaning of group in English

group

noun

/ɡruːp/ us

/ɡruːp/

group noun (SET)

A1 [ C ]

a number of people or things that are put together or considered as a unit:

I'm meeting a group of friends for dinner tonight.

The car was parked near a small group of trees.

She showed me another group of pictures, this time of children playing.

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A small group of children waited outside the door.
An unknown terrorist group has claimed responsibility for this morning's bomb attack.
They work as a group - no one person is allowed to dominate.
This group of chemicals is known to be harmful to people with asthma.
The two groups of scientists are vying to get funding for their research projects.

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Groups of people

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group noun (MUSIC)

A1 [ C, + sing/pl verb ]

a number of people who play music together, especially pop music:

What's your favourite group?

a pop/rock group

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The group have just signed with a new record label.
The group had a meteoric rise to fame in the 70s.
The drums and double bass usually form the rhythm section of a jazz group.
They enjoyed success on a scale unparalleled by any previous pop group.
Tickets are selling well for the group's upcoming concert tour.

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Groups of musicians

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group noun (BUSINESS)

[ C ]

a business that contains several different companies:

United News Media, the national newspaper and television group

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Enterprises

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group noun (SPORT)

[ C ]

a number of football teams who play each other in a competition. The winners of the group move onto the next stage of the competion :

The Danes were the surprise winners of their group.

the group stages

the first part of a football competition in which teams are divided into groups and play only the other teams in their group. The winners of each group move onto the next stage of the competition:

The team failed to progress beyond the group stages of Euro 2012.

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Football/soccer

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Competitors & participants in sports & games

Competitions, & parts of competitions

Grammar

Group words

Group words (sometimes called collective nouns) are nouns which refer to groups of people, animals or things. There are special group words for particular combinations of people, animals and things: …

group

verb [ I or T, + adv/prep ]

/ɡruːp/ us

/ɡruːp/

to form a group or put people or things into a group:

We all grouped together around the bride for a family photograph.

I grouped the children according to age.

The books were grouped by size.

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Classifying and creating order

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Forming groups (of people)

(Definition of group from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

group | American Dictionary

group

noun [ C ]

/ɡrup/

a number of people or things that are together or considered as a unit:

a group of trees

I’m meeting a group of friends for dinner.

A group is also a number of people who play music together, especially popular music:

a rock/soul group

chemistry

A group is also any of the columns in the periodic table of chemical elements.

group

verb [ T ] us

/ɡrup/

She grouped the children by height for the class photograph.

(Definition of group from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

group | Business English

group

noun

/ɡruːp/ us

[ C ]

(also group of companies)

a business that contains several different companies:

Under the group's final salary pension scheme, his pension is increased for every year he served.

a television/banking/construction group

group accounts/sales

a number of people or things that are put together or considered as a single thing:

group of sth This deal has been backed by a group of external investors.

This group of drugs are known as taxanes.

I want someone who is going to work in a group.

a group discussion/interview/assignment

Collocations with group

group

These are words often used in combination with group.

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carrier group

The carrier group had to be trained as an operational unit.

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kin group

Through marriage alliances, claims to land can be kept within the kin group or might be ceded to another group.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

leftist group

He first attended a military college, but left it due to his membership to a leftist group during the late 1940s.

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